From: "Lothar Waßmann" <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
George Cherian <george.cherian@ti.com>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mtd: mtd_oobtest: generate consitent data for verification
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:13:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140310121304.132c814f@ipc1.ka-ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394205850-5366-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Hi,
Akinobu Mita wrote:
> mtd_oobtest writes OOB, read it back and verify. The verification is
> not correctly done if oobsize is not multiple of 4. Although the data
> to be written and the data to be compared are generated by several
> prandom_byte_state() calls starting with the same seed, these two are
> generated with the different size and different number of calls.
>
> Due to the implementation of prandom_byte_state() if the size on each
> call is not multiple of 4, the resulting data is not always same.
>
> This fixes it by just calling prandom_byte_state() once and using
> correct range instead of calling it multiple times for each.
>
With this patch the oobtest works on our i.MX53 platform.
You can add my:
Tested-by: <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Lothar Waßmann
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-07 15:24 [PATCH v3] mtd: mtd_oobtest: generate consitent data for verification Akinobu Mita
2014-03-10 11:13 ` Lothar Waßmann [this message]
2014-04-18 5:24 ` Brian Norris
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