From 45b8895ac9ff400a53a1034081a2c480664f235e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bushing <bushing@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 04:49:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] don't try to correct ECC on uninitialized pages

---
 nand.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nand.c b/nand.c
index c88002e..03129dc 100644
--- a/nand.c
+++ b/nand.c
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ int nand_correct(u32 pageno, void *data, void *ecc)
 	
 	for(i=0;i<4;i++) {
 		u32 syndrome = *ecc_read ^ *ecc_calc; //calculate ECC syncrome
-		if(syndrome) {
+		// don't try to correct unformatted pages (all FF)
+		if ((*ecc_read != 0xFFFFFFFF) && syndrome) {
 			if(!((syndrome-1)&syndrome)) {
 				// single-bit error in ECC
 				corrected++;