Re: [PATCH v3] mtd: nand: pass page number to ecc->write_xxx() methods

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 07:53:25AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> The ->read_xxx() methods are all passed the page number the NAND controller
> is supposed to read, but ->write_xxx() do not have such a parameter.
> 
> This is a problem if we want to properly implement data
> scrambling/randomization in order to mitigate MLC sensibility to repeated
> pattern: to prevent bitflips in adjacent pages in the same block we need
> to avoid repeating the same pattern at the same offset in those pages,
> hence the randomizer/scrambler engine need to be passed the page value
> in order to adapt its seed accordingly.
> 
> Moreover, adding the page parameter to the ->write_xxx() methods add some
> consistency to the current API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> CC: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
> CC: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
> CC: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> CC: Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@arm.com>
> CC: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> CC: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
> CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> - fixed compilation error in the gpmi driver
> - compile tested all impacted drivers except the bf5xx_nand,
>   fsl_elbc_nand and fsl_ifc_nand ones
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - rebased on l2-mtd/master
> - fixed compilation error in the docg4 driver
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c                 |  6 ++++--
>  drivers/mtd/nand/bf5xx_nand.c                 |  3 ++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c          |  4 ++--
>  drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_nand.c                  |  3 ++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c                     |  5 +++--
>  drivers/mtd/nand/docg4.c                      |  6 +++---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c              |  4 ++--
>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c               |  2 +-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c        |  8 +++----
>  drivers/mtd/nand/hisi504_nand.c               |  3 ++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_mlc.c                |  3 ++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/lpc32xx_slc.c                |  5 +++--
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c                  | 31 ++++++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c                      |  3 ++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c                |  3 ++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/sh_flctl.c                   |  3 ++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c                 |  5 +++--
>  drivers/mtd/nand/vf610_nfc.c                  |  2 +-
>  drivers/staging/mt29f_spinand/mt29f_spinand.c |  3 ++-
>  include/linux/mtd/nand.h                      |  6 +++---
>  20 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

Hmm, am I missing something, or does this not apply to l2-mtd.git or
linux-next.git?