linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mtd: nand: provide detailed description for raw read/write page methods

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:06:27 -0800
From:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
To:	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Huang Shijie <shijie8@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Mike Voytovich <mvoytovich@...pal.com>,
	Roy Lee <roylee@...pal.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mtd: nand: provide detailed description for raw
 read/write page methods

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:46:14AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> read_page_raw and write_page_raw method description is not clear enough.
> It clearly specifies that ECC correction should not be involved but does
> not talk about specific layout (by layout I mean where in-band and
> out-of-band data are stored on the NAND media) used by NAND/ECC
> controllers.
> 
> Those specific layouts might impact MTD users and thus should be hidden (as
> already done in the standard NAND_ECC_HW_SYNDROME implementation).
> 
> Clearly state this constraint in the nand_ecc_ctrl struct documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>

Pushed this patch to l2-mtd.git. Thanks!

Brian
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