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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Cc: marex@denx.de, fabio.estevam@freescale.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, shawn.guo@linaro.org,
	Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: gpmi: add NAND write verify support
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:20:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1344853227.3393.7.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50288C0E.5060400@freescale.com>

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On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 13:09 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> 于 2012年08月13日 12:44, Artem Bityutskiy 写道:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Huang Shijie<shijie8@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Add NAND write verify support in gpmi-nand driver.
> >>
> >> This patch fixes a kernel crash when we select
> >> CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE=y, and do some write tests:
> > I would just kill ONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE entirely. Some drivers
> > do not support it and it does not work for sub-pages for long time.
> > Both UBI and JFFS2 are able to read verify what they wrote already.
> > There are also MTD tests which do this verification. So I think there
> > is no reason to keep this in the NAND layer, let alone wasting RAM in
> > the driver to support this feature.
> >
> > I am also removing the -stable mailing list - ne need to spam it.
> >
> thanks a lot. Maybe we should send a patch to remove the 
> CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE feature entirely.

I'd suggest that instead. I have huge back-log, so wouldn't be able to
process it quickly, but at some point I would take it to the l2 tree.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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From: dedekind1@gmail.com (Artem Bityutskiy)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] mtd: gpmi: add NAND write verify support
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:20:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1344853227.3393.7.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50288C0E.5060400@freescale.com>

On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 13:09 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> ? 2012?08?13? 12:44, Artem Bityutskiy ??:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Huang Shijie<shijie8@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Add NAND write verify support in gpmi-nand driver.
> >>
> >> This patch fixes a kernel crash when we select
> >> CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE=y, and do some write tests:
> > I would just kill ONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE entirely. Some drivers
> > do not support it and it does not work for sub-pages for long time.
> > Both UBI and JFFS2 are able to read verify what they wrote already.
> > There are also MTD tests which do this verification. So I think there
> > is no reason to keep this in the NAND layer, let alone wasting RAM in
> > the driver to support this feature.
> >
> > I am also removing the -stable mailing list - ne need to spam it.
> >
> thanks a lot. Maybe we should send a patch to remove the 
> CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE feature entirely.

I'd suggest that instead. I have huge back-log, so wouldn't be able to
process it quickly, but at some point I would take it to the l2 tree.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-11 15:25 [PATCH v2] mtd: gpmi: add NAND write verify support Huang Shijie
2012-08-11 15:25 ` Huang Shijie
2012-08-11  3:37 ` Huang Shijie
2012-08-11  3:37   ` Huang Shijie
2012-08-13  4:44 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-13  4:44   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-13  5:09   ` Huang Shijie
2012-08-13  5:09     ` Huang Shijie
2012-08-13 10:20     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-08-13 10:20       ` Artem Bityutskiy

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