Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: nand: omap: fix BCHx ecc.correct to return detected bit-flips in erased-page

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 04:43:35AM +0000, Pekon Gupta wrote:
> This fix is really important to be marked as stable, as some users of OMAP
> platforms have spawning out from 3.10 and 3.12 kernel to go for production.
> And quite a few of them might be using NAND for their booting purpose,
> so without this patch any bit-flip on their erased-pages will not be detected.

Well, I don't think it's actually as dire as you say. The erased-page
bitflips won't be flagged as -EUCLEAN, but they will be "corrected." I
expect that this should be fine mostly.

But anyway, tagged for -stable and re-queued to l2-mtd.git.

In the future, I may be less likely to do this kind of rebasing. Note
that there is still a procedure for getting fixes to -stable after their
merging:

<quote>
 - Send the patch, after verifying that it follows the above rules, to
   stable@vger.kernel.org.  You must note the upstream commit ID in the
   changelog of your submission, as well as the kernel version you wish
   it to be applied to.
</quote>

Brian