linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/9] dt-bindings: mtd: ingenic: Change 'BCH' to 'ECC' in documentation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:59:48 -0300
From:   Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@...nel.org>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Harvey Hunt <harveyhuntnexus@...il.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/9] dt-bindings: mtd: ingenic: Change 'BCH' to 'ECC'
 in documentation



Le lun. 4 mars 2019 à 15:58, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> 
a écrit :
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net> wrote on Mon, 04 Mar 2019 
> 19:23:50
> +0100:
> 
>>  On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:50 AM, Miquel Raynal 
>> <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
>>  > Hi Paul,
>>  >
>>  > Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net 
>> <mailto:paul@...pouillou.net>> > wrote on Sat,  9 Feb 2019 16:22:58
>>  > -0300:
>>  >
>>  >>  The JZ4740 ECC hardware is not BCH but Reed-Solomon, so it 
>> makes >> more
>>  >>  sense to use the more generic ECC term.
>>  >> >>  Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net >> 
>> <mailto:paul@...pouillou.net>>
>>  >>  ---
>>  >> >>  Changes:
>>  >> >>  v3: New patch
>>  >> >>  v4: No change
>>  >> >>   .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/ingenic,jz4780-nand.txt    | 18 
>> >> +++++++++---------
>>  >>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>  >> >>  diff --git >> 
>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/ingenic,jz4780-nand.txt >> 
>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/ingenic,jz4780-nand.txt
>>  >>  index a5b940f18bf6..5a45cc54f46d 100644
>>  >>  --- 
>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/ingenic,jz4780-nand.txt
>>  >>  +++ 
>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/ingenic,jz4780-nand.txt
>>  >>  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>  >>  -* Ingenic JZ4780 NAND/BCH
>>  >>  +* Ingenic JZ4780 NAND/ECC
>>  >> >>   This file documents the device tree bindings for NAND flash 
>> >> devices on the
>>  >>   JZ4780. NAND devices are connected to the NEMC controller >> 
>> (described in
>>  >>  @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ Required NAND controller device properties:
>>  >>     an offset of 0 and a size of 0x1000000 (i.e. the whole NEMC 
>> >> bank).
>>  >> >>   Optional NAND controller device properties:
>>  >>  -- ingenic,bch-controller: To make use of the hardware BCH >> 
>> controller, this
>>  >>  -  property must contain a phandle for the BCH controller node. 
>> The >> required
>>  >>  +- ingenic,bch-controller: To make use of the hardware ECC >> 
>> controller, this
>>  >>  +  property must contain a phandle for the ECC controller node. 
>> The >> required
>>  >
>>  > I think there is already a 'ecc-engine' property used by MTK and 
>> Atmel
>>  > NAND controllers to point to the ECC engine block. Please use this
>>  > property instead of the ingenic specific one.
>> 
>>  ingenic,bch-controller is already in the devicetree ABI. I can't 
>> change it now...
> 
> Oh, right...
> 
> Well, same thing as before, maybe you can change it and keep the 
> driver
> backward compatible? I don't want new DT to use this property because
> it is not generic and we must have a way from the core to find the ECC
> engine handle when the controller does not embed one itself (thus, the
> ecc-engine property which is around for quite some time already).

I can do that. Will the new ECC framework work with the "ecc-engine" 
property?

-Paul