From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: b.brezillon@overkiz.com (Boris BREZILLON) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:53:25 +0100 Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/9] mtd: nand: retrieve ECC requirements from Hynix READ ID byte 4 In-Reply-To: <20140123014906.GY8919@ld-irv-0074> References: <1389190924-26226-1-git-send-email-b.brezillon@overkiz.com> <1389190924-26226-2-git-send-email-b.brezillon@overkiz.com> <20140123014906.GY8919@ld-irv-0074> Message-ID: <52F24255.9030603@overkiz.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hello Brian, On 23/01/2014 02:49, Brian Norris wrote: > + Huang > > Hi Boris, > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:21:56PM +0100, Boris BREZILLON wrote: >> The Hynix nand flashes store their ECC requirements in byte 4 of its id >> (returned on READ ID command). >> >> Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON > I haven't verified yet (perhaps Huang can confirm?), but this may be > similar to a patch Huang submitted recently. In his case, we found that > this table is actually quite unreliable and is likely hard to maintain. Indeed (as stated in this thread http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/50252). I'll remove this patch from the next version of this series and make use of the nand-ecc-strength /nand-ecc-size DT properties instead. Thanks. Best Regards, Boris > > Why do you need this ECC information, for my reference? > > Brian