linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd : add init

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Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:05:19 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>
Cc:	David.Woodhouse@...el.com, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd : add init_size hook for NAND driver

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 19:34 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> Not all the NAND devices have all the information in additional
> id bytes.
> 
> So add a hook in the nand_chip{} is a good method to calculate the
> right value of oobsize, erasesize and so on.
> 
> Without the hook,you will get the wrong value, and you have to hack
> in the ->scan_bbt() to change the wrong value which make the code
> mess.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |    6 ++++--
>  include/linux/mtd/nand.h     |    5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Taken to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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