From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: v4.4-stable: GPMI nand controller broken
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 15:12:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180504221231.GB20328@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180504065621.hclfdfxjxnobt4e7@pengutronix.de>
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 08:56:21AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> The following went into v4.4.120:
>
> 197190bc5c48 mtd: nand: gpmi: Fix failure when a erased page has a bitflip at BBM
>
> This patch was backported to far for the stable tree. It only makes sense
> (and only works) together with:
>
> bd2e778c9ee3 gpmi-nand: Handle ECC Errors in erased pages
>
> which first appeared in v4.7.
>
> So either we revert 197190bc5c48 on the v4.4 stable tree or we apply the
> attached patch which is a backport of bd2e778c9ee3 for v4.4.
>
> I don't know which solution is prefered, personally I would prefer
> applying the attached patch which is also a bugfix. Without it erased
> pages may not be handled properly.
I've now applied this bugfix, thanks!
greg k-h
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