linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10] MTD: LPC32xx MLC NAND driver

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:13:58 -0300
From:	Alexandre Pereira da Silva <aletes.xgr@...il.com>
To:	dedekind1@...il.com
Cc:	Roland Stigge <stigge@...com.de>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	kevin.wells@....com, srinivas.bakki@....com,
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	lars@...afoo.de, b32955@...escale.com, leiwen@...vell.com,
	linux@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10] MTD: LPC32xx MLC NAND driver

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 09:56 -0300, Alexandre Pereira da Silva wrote:
>> > @@ @@
>> > +drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_mlc.c: In function 'lpc32xx_nand_probe':
>> > +drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_mlc.c:679:10: warning: variable 'sr' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>
> gcc 4.6, aiaiai uses W=1 when building.
>
>> > +drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_mlc.c:561:24: error: bad constant expression [sparse]
>
> This is sparse, not gcc.

Does the oob area need to be ecc protected? If not I suggest to just
remove the read_oob and write_oob and let this to nand_base. I think
this is too much overhead to read 6 bytes.
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