Commit a87f29cb authored Oct 31, 2010 by Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: always re-read in case of read failures



When the read operation fails, UBI tries to re-read several times in
a hope that one of the subsequent reads may succeed. However, currently
UBI re-reads only if MTD failed to read all data, but does not re-reads
if all the data were read, but with an integrity error (-EBADMSB). This
patch makes UBI to always re-try reading.

This should be useful for reading NAND pages with unstable bits -
re-reading may help to get correct data.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

parent fef2deb3

drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ retry:
		return UBI_IO_BITFLIPS;
		}

		if (read != len && retries++ < UBI_IO_RETRIES) {
		if (retries++ < UBI_IO_RETRIES) {
		dbg_io("error %d%s while reading %d bytes from PEB %d:%d,"
		" read only %zd bytes, retry",
		err, errstr, len, pnum, offset, read);

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