From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>,
Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar@st.com>,
"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>,
Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com>, Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>,
Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>,
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>,
Bastian Hecht <hechtb@gmail.com>, Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>,
Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
Armando Visconti <armando.visconti@st.com>,
Liu Shuo <b35362@freescale.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>,
Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>,
Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: nand: add OOB argument to NAND {read, write}_page interfaces
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:50:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8D20C4.9010607@parrot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334615755-15418-2-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Brian Norris a écrit :
> New NAND controllers can perform read/write via HW engines which don't expose
> OOB data in their DMA mode. To reflect this, we should rework the nand_chip /
> nand_ecc_ctrl interfaces that assume that drivers will always read/write OOB
> data in the nand_chip.oob_poi buffer. A better interface would pass the
> appropriate buffer explicitly when OOB data is requested and otherwise pass a
> NULL pointer, meaning that no OOB data is needed.
If I understand correctly you propose that these driver will fetch oob (via pio
mode) only when needed ?
Do you have an example of such controller ?
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-17 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-16 22:35 [PATCH 0/2] mtd: nand: rework nand_ecc_ctrl interface for OOB Brian Norris
2012-04-16 22:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] mtd: nand: add OOB argument to NAND {read, write}_page interfaces Brian Norris
2012-04-17 7:50 ` Matthieu CASTET [this message]
2012-04-18 3:44 ` Brian Norris
2012-04-19 16:50 ` Mike Dunn
2012-04-19 22:06 ` Brian Norris
2012-04-20 1:10 ` Jon Povey
2012-04-20 16:25 ` Mike Dunn
2012-04-20 19:19 ` Brian Norris
2012-04-20 16:17 ` Mike Dunn
2012-04-22 7:58 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-04-23 9:14 ` Bastian Hecht
2012-04-23 17:14 ` Mike Dunn
2012-04-24 6:02 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-04-25 13:17 ` Bastian Hecht
2012-04-17 14:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] mtd: nand: add OOB argument to NAND {read,write}_page interfaces Shmulik Ladkani
2012-04-18 4:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] mtd: nand: add OOB argument to NAND {read, write}_page interfaces Brian Norris
2012-04-18 7:56 ` Bastian Hecht
2012-04-18 9:37 ` Bastian Hecht
2012-04-18 16:22 ` Brian Norris
2012-04-19 9:26 ` Bastian Hecht
2012-04-16 22:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd: nand: nand_do_{read, write}_ops - pass OOB buffer through Brian Norris
2012-04-18 11:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd: nand: nand_do_{read,write}_ops " Shmulik Ladkani
2012-04-18 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd: nand: nand_do_{read, write}_ops " Brian Norris
2012-04-18 19:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd: nand: nand_do_{read,write}_ops " Shmulik Ladkani
2012-04-25 14:16 ` [PATCH 0/2] mtd: nand: rework nand_ecc_ctrl interface for OOB Artem Bityutskiy
2012-04-25 18:26 ` Brian Norris
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4F8D20C4.9010607@parrot.com \
--to=matthieu.castet@parrot.com \
--cc=armando.visconti@st.com \
--cc=artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com \
--cc=axel.lin@gmail.com \
--cc=b32955@freescale.com \
--cc=b35362@freescale.com \
--cc=cernekee@gmail.com \
--cc=computersforpeace@gmail.com \
--cc=dbaryshkov@gmail.com \
--cc=dedekind1@gmail.com \
--cc=dwmw2@infradead.org \
--cc=ffainelli@freebox.fr \
--cc=hechtb@gmail.com \
--cc=jamie@jamieiles.com \
--cc=jdzheng@broadcom.com \
--cc=laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com \
--cc=leiwen@marvell.com \
--cc=leoli@freescale.com \
--cc=linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org \
--cc=mikedunn@newsguy.com \
--cc=nicolas.ferre@atmel.com \
--cc=plagnioj@jcrosoft.com \
--cc=sbranden@broadcom.com \
--cc=shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
--cc=vipin.kumar@st.com \
--cc=viresh.kumar@st.com \
--cc=w.sang@pengutronix.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).