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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtd_debug: report ecc layout
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:00:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314010839.2644.116.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcSpE+EhmRXn3Wv7TMAy7n_keTHoJQZHGhrQbKzAHpz5HsCkQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 10:01 -0400, Ben Gardiner wrote:
> Fair enough -- I'm happy to hear a definitive answer; thank you, Artem.
> 
> In PATCH 3/3 I use the same ioctl to get the ECC size for the purposes
> of producing a BER estimate. What is the right way of getting the ECC
> size now that ECCGETLAYOUT is deprecated? Is this even something that
> should be from userspace at all?

I do not know. I think we need to expose it via sysfs. I think that in
general sysfs is better that "informational" ioctls.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-22 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-09 20:38 [PATCH 0/3] mtd-utils: bit errors in nandtest Ben Gardiner
2011-08-09 20:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] mtd_debug: report ecc layout Ben Gardiner
2011-08-10 17:07   ` Brian Norris
2011-08-10 17:52     ` Ben Gardiner
2011-08-17  8:32     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-17  8:03   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-18 14:01     ` Ben Gardiner
2011-08-22 11:00       ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-08-22 13:11         ` Ben Gardiner
2011-08-09 20:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] nandtest: print number of bits corrected during test Ben Gardiner
2011-08-25 11:00   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-09 20:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] nandtest: report estimated BER Ben Gardiner

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