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Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com> wrote on Thu, 7 May
2020 13:49:59 +0200:

> On Thu,  7 May 2020 13:00:30 +0200
> Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > There are cases where ECC bytes are not byte-aligned. Indeed, BCH
> > implies using a number of ECC bits, which are not always a multiple of
> > 8. We then need a helper like nand_extract_bits() to extract these
> > syndromes from a buffer.  
> 
> Do you plan to send a patch to make the GPMI driver use this helper?

I will have a look at it.