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From: Thomas Gleixner <gleixner@autronix.de>
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: JFFS2 & NAND
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 20:36:07 +0100
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On Sunday, 17. February 2002 18:25, David Woodhouse wrote:
> gleixner@autronix.de said:
> > Maybe we  could reduce the information to a filesystem type and define
> > the oob-layout  as constants in a .h file. That would be less overhead
> > but gives the  flexibility for both chip and filesystem driver to use
> > free oob layouts. It would be not a big hack to rearrange it that way.
>
> I think that might be best. After all, there are only a limited number of
> such arrangements.
>
> I'd actually like to overhaul all the oob and ecc stuff in the mtd_info
> structure - I don't like any of it very much. If we can make do with the
> existing API for a while longer, then we can give some serious thought to
> its replacement.
I looked for the usage of eectype in MTD. There's only nand.c, which writes a 
value to this field. We could use a OR-value for the oob-configuration and 
use this field for our oob-layout selection.
 
Thomas
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