linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Export the ecc step size to user applications

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Date:	Thu, 8 Aug 2013 16:37:17 +0800
From:	Huang Shijie <b32955@...escale.com>
To:	Huang Shijie <b32955@...escale.com>
CC:	<dwmw2@...radead.org>, <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	<computersforpeace@...il.com>, <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Export the ecc step size to user applications

Hi Artem & Brian:
> In order to implement the NAND boot for some Freescale's chips, such as
> imx23/imx28/imx50/imx6, we use a tool (called kobs-ng) to burn the uboot
> and some metadata to nand chip. And the ROM code will use the metadata to
> configrate the BCH, and to find the uboot.
>
> The ECC information(ecc step size, ecc strength) which is used to configrate
> the BCH is part of the metadata. The kobs-ng can gets the ecc strength from
> the sys node /sys/*/mtdX/ecc_strength now. But it can't gets the ecc step size.
>
> This patch set is used to export the ecc step size to user applications.
> With this patch set, the kobs-ng can gets the ecc step size now.
>
> v1 --> v2:
> 	[1] rename the ecc_size to ecc_step.
> 	[2] rebase on the latest l2-mtd.
>
> Huang Shijie (4):
>   mtd: add a new field to mtd_info{}
>   mtd: add a new sys node to show the ecc step size
>   mtd: set the ecc step size for master/slave mtd_info
>   mtd: gpmi: update the ecc step size for mtd_info{}
>
>  drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c                  |   11 +++++++++++
>  drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c                  |    1 +
>  drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c |    1 +
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c           |    1 +
>  include/linux/mtd/mtd.h                |    3 +++
>  5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
Could you merge this patch set ?

thanks
Huang Shijie


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