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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Linux MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.29-rc3] NAND: fix "raw" reads with ECC syndrome layouts
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:34:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902051434.00831.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902021734.12505.david-b@pacbell.net>

On Monday 02 February 2009, David Brownell wrote:
> The current syndrome-based drivers in mainline all seem to use one
> chunk per page; which is presumably why they've not hit this bug.

Hmm, no comments?  It seems the ECC_HW_SYNDROME stuff isn't
especially familiar to many folk...


> Fix ... by adding read/write page_raw_syndrome() routines as
> siblings of the existing non-raw routines; "raw" just means to
> bypass the ECC computations, not mutate data and OOB layout.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-03  1:34 [patch 2.6.29-rc3] NAND: fix "raw" reads with ECC syndrome layouts David Brownell
2009-02-05 22:34 ` David Brownell [this message]

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