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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] mtd-nand: davinci: correct 4-bit error correction
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Hi,

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:30:58, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:33:03 +0530
> "Sudhakar Rajashekhara" <sudhakar.raj@ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 17:11:32, Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:31:19, Jon Povey wrote:
> > > > Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
> > > > > On TI's DA830/OMAP-L137, DA850/OMAP-L138 and DM365, after setting the
> > > > > 4BITECC_ADD_CALC_START bit in the NAND Flash control register to 1 and
> > > > > before waiting for the NAND Flash status register to be equal to 1, 2
> > > > > or 3, we have to wait till the ECC HW goes to correction state.
> > > > > Without this wait, ECC correction calculations will not be proper.
> > > > >
> > > > > This has been tested on DA830/OMAP-L137, DA850/OMAP-L138, DM355 and
> > > > > DM365 EVMs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
> > > > > Acked-by: Sneha Narnakaje <nsnehaprabha@ti.com>
> > > > > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > > > 
> > > > Have these people acked and signed off this new version of the patch?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > No. Andrew Morton has not signed off this version. I'll remove
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > > 
> > 
> > Andrew Morton had signed off an earlier version of this patch and
> > it was present in -mm tree for a long time. He has not yet commented
> > on v2 version of this patch. But I thought I can carry forward the
> > Sign-offs from previous version to the next version. What's the common
> > practice?
> > 
> 
> 
> I've lost the plot on this patch and I think I'll drop my copy.  Please
> update and resend, cc'ing everyone.
> 
> I've been sitting on this thing since November last year!  It fixes a
> bug!  Where the heck are the MTD maintainers and why aren't they
> running around with hair on fire getting this thing finalised and
> merged?!?!
> 

I got an e-mail from Artem Bityutskiy(dedekind1@gmail.com) saying that
he has pushed this patch to his l2-mtd-2.6/master tree. May be it will
get to upstream from there.

Thanks,
Sudhakar