From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: paul@crapouillou.net, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mtd: rawnand: davinci: Rewrite function description" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 15:09:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <164294697725316@kroah.com> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 0697f8441faad552fbeb02d74454b5e7bcc956a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:22:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: davinci: Rewrite function description
The original comment that describes the function
nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first() is very obscure and it is hard
to understand what it is for.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.2
Fixes: a0ac778eb82c ("mtd: rawnand: ingenic: Add support for the JZ4740")
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20211016132228.40254-3-paul@crapouillou.net
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
index 2e6a0c1671be..fe2511cdcae3 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
@@ -372,17 +372,15 @@ static int nand_davinci_correct_4bit(struct nand_chip *chip, u_char *data,
}
/**
- * nand_read_page_hwecc_oob_first - hw ecc, read oob first
+ * nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first - Hardware ECC page read with ECC
+ * data read from OOB area
* @chip: nand chip info structure
* @buf: buffer to store read data
* @oob_required: caller requires OOB data read to chip->oob_poi
* @page: page number to read
*
- * Hardware ECC for large page chips, require OOB to be read first. For this
- * ECC mode, the write_page method is re-used from ECC_HW. These methods
- * read/write ECC from the OOB area, unlike the ECC_HW_SYNDROME support with
- * multiple ECC steps, follows the "infix ECC" scheme and reads/writes ECC from
- * the data area, by overwriting the NAND manufacturer bad block markings.
+ * Hardware ECC for large page chips, which requires the ECC data to be
+ * extracted from the OOB before the actual data is read.
*/
static int nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first(struct nand_chip *chip,
uint8_t *buf,
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