From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-gx0-f177.google.com ([209.85.161.177]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1QvPzt-0001QE-6X for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:36:41 +0000 Received: by gxk2 with SMTP id 2so4198219gxk.36 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC 2/5] mtd: support MTD_MODE_RAW for reading OOB From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Brian Norris Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:38:25 +0300 In-Reply-To: <1313625029-19546-3-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> References: <1313625029-19546-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> <1313625029-19546-3-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1314002311.2644.70.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Mike Frysinger , Kevin Cernekee , b35362@freescale.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse , Matthew Creech Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 16:50 -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > mtd_do_read_oob does not pass information about whether to read in RAW > mode to the lower layers (e.g., NAND). We should pass MTD_OOB_RAW or > MTD_OOB_PLACE based on the MTD file mode. > > This fixes issues with `nanddump -n' and the MEMREADOOB[64] ioctls. > > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris I guess similar question applies to this patch - why is this RFC while it looks like a candidate for 'stable@kernel.org'? -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy