From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boris Brezillon Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/3] mtd: nand: standardize ECC maximization Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:08:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20160916150849.4a3ca0bb@bbrezillon> References: <1465398264-8202-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1465398264-8202-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , linux-mtd-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, Boris Brezillon , Richard Weinberger Cc: Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 17:04:21 +0200 Boris Brezillon wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for the noise, but I forgot to add DT maintainers in Cc. > > This series aims at standardizing a feature already supported by > some NAND controller drivers: setting the maximum ECC strength > based on the OOB area size instead of using the ECC strength/step_size > information retrieved from the DT or NAND detection code. > > This is particularly useful when the NAND device is used in by a > FS/wear-leveling layer that is not using the OOB area at all (this is > the case of UBI). > > Note that drivers already implementing this kind of logic are not > converted to the new approach (because of backward compatibility > concern), but new drivers or drivers that do not already implement > this 'ECC maximization' logic are encouraged to do it. Applied. > > Regards, > > Boris > > Boris Brezillon (3): > mtd: nand: Add an option to maximize the ECC strength > mtd: nand: Support maximizing ECC when using software BCH > mtd: nand: sunxi: Support ECC maximization > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt | 9 ++++++++ > drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/mtd/nand.h | 1 + > 4 files changed, 62 insertions(+) > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html