From: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mtd: nand: gpmi: [FIXME] need to use {read, write}_oob_raw
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 10:48:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB07272.4020403@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336768235-12658-3-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Hi Brian :
> This patch is simply an added warning in the comments. Ideally, this patch
> need not be merged, but rather, a developer will write a proper solution
> that can use the ecc.read_oob_raw and ecc.write_oob_raw interfaces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> Cc: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> index 8250f63..033bd7a 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
> @@ -1054,6 +1054,9 @@ exit_auxiliary:
> * ECC-based or raw view of the page is implicit in which function it calls
> * (there is a similar pair of ECC-based/raw functions for writing).
> *
> + * FIXME: The following paragraph is incorrect, now that there exist
> + * ecc.read_oob_raw and ecc.write_oob_raw functions.
I think you can just remove the following paragraph(it's out of date now).
Best Regards
Huang Shijie
> + *
> * Since MTD assumes the OOB is not covered by ECC, there is no pair of
> * ECC-based/raw functions for reading or or writing the OOB. The fact that the
> * caller wants an ECC-based or raw view of the page is not propagated down to
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-14 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-11 20:30 [PATCH 1/3] mtdoops: refactor loop Brian Norris
2012-05-11 20:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] mtd: cafe_nand: spelling mistake Brian Norris
2012-05-11 20:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] mtd: nand: gpmi: [FIXME] need to use {read, write}_oob_raw Brian Norris
2012-05-14 2:48 ` Huang Shijie [this message]
2012-05-15 7:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] mtd: nand: gpmi: [FIXME] need to use {read,write}_oob_raw Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-15 7:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] mtdoops: refactor loop Artem Bityutskiy
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