From: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MTD: modify mtd api to return bitflip info on read operations
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:43:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDB3295.6040201@bitbox.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322943640-11728-1-git-send-email-mikedunn@newsguy.com>
On 03/12/2011 20:20, Mike Dunn wrote:
>
> This patch proposes a change to the mtd API for the purpose of returning to
> the caller information on the number of bit errors corrected by the ecc
> facilities of the device during read operations. The affected functions are
> read() and read_oob().
>
Do the number of bit-flips mean anything to the higher layers like UBI?
As the ECC strength / error rate are a chip dependent thing how do the
higher layers know what is good/normal/bad?
P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-04 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-03 20:20 [PATCH v2] MTD: modify mtd api to return bitflip info on read operations Mike Dunn
2011-12-04 8:43 ` Peter Horton [this message]
2011-12-04 13:52 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-04 14:43 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-04 14:55 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-05 6:07 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-05 16:58 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-05 17:09 ` Peter Horton
2011-12-05 18:57 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-06 21:52 ` Robert Jarzmik
2011-12-07 2:16 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-07 8:01 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-12-07 18:32 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-12 12:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-14 20:46 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-16 10:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-07 9:42 ` Peter Horton
2011-12-07 18:33 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-04 14:33 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-05 6:23 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-12-05 18:13 ` Mike Dunn
2011-12-05 21:16 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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