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From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
Cc: Mason Yang <masonccyang@mxic.com.tw>, Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	Tudor Ambarus <Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com>,
	Julien Su <juliensu@mxic.com.tw>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>,
	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 03/27] mtd: nand: Introduce the ECC engine abstraction
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:56:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190227145607.24e49014@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190225195543.27799e77@kernel.org>

Hi Boris,

Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org> wrote on Mon, 25 Feb 2019
19:55:43 +0100:

> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:01:52 +0100
> Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * struct nand_ecc_engine_ops - Generic ECC engine operations
> > + *
> > + * @init_ctx: given a desired user configuration for the pointed NAND device,
> > + *            requests the ECC engine driver to setup a configuration with
> > + *            values it supports.
> > + * @cleanup_ctx: clean the context initialized by @init_ctx.
> > + * @prepare_io_req: is called before reading/writing a page to prepare the I/O
> > + *                  request to be performed with ECC correction.
> > + * @finish_io_req: is called after reading/writing a page to terminate the I/O
> > + *                 request and ensure proper ECC correction.
> > + */
> > +struct nand_ecc_engine_ops {  
> 
> We might want to add a
> 
> 	void (*put_engine)(struct nand_ecc_engine *engine);
> 
> here if we want the nanddev cleanup path to be generic.
> This hook would be implemented by drivers where the ECC engine object is
> refcounted (typically the case for HW ECC engines shared by the raw NAND
> controller and the SPI controller).
> 
> Alternatively, you can just add one nand_put_xxx_ecc_engine() func per
> engine class (SW, ondie and HW).

Can't this be handled in the init/cleanup_ctx() path directly?

Furthermore if this is just a hook to do reference counting.


Thanks,
Miquèl

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-27 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-21 10:01 [RFC PATCH 00/27] Introduce the generic ECC engine abstraction Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 01/27] mtd: nand: Move nand_device forward declaration to the top Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 02/27] mtd: nand: Compile in the NAND core by default Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:55   ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-21 11:06     ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 11:14       ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-21 11:46         ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 12:08           ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-21 12:52             ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 03/27] mtd: nand: Introduce the ECC engine abstraction Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 11:16   ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-27  9:26     ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-27  9:47       ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-25 18:55   ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-27 13:56     ` Miquel Raynal [this message]
2019-02-27 14:06       ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-27 14:19         ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-27 14:28           ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-27 14:34             ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 04/27] mtd: Fix typo in mtd_ooblayout_set_databytes() description Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 05/27] mtd: nand: Move standard OOB layouts to the NAND core Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 11:19   ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-21 11:47     ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 12:10       ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 06/27] mtd: nand: Move ECC specific functions to ecc/engine.c Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 07/27] mtd: nand: ecc: Move BCH code into the ecc/ directory Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 08/27] mtd: nand: ecc: Use SPDX license identifier for the software BCH code Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 11:25   ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-21 11:48     ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 09/27] mtd: nand: ecc: Turn the software BCH implementation generic Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 12:26   ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-21 12:53     ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:01 ` [RFC PATCH 10/27] mtd: rawnand: Get rid of chip->ecc.priv Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 13:01   ` Boris Brezillon
2019-02-21 10:02 ` [RFC PATCH 11/27] mtd: nand: ecc: Move Hamming code into the ecc/ directory Miquel Raynal
2019-02-21 10:02 ` [RFC PATCH 12/27] mtd: nand: ecc: Use SPDX license identifier for the software Hamming code Miquel Raynal

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