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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: MTD Maling List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] UBI: fastmap: add more TODOs
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:46:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCFEBC2.9000009@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339025892.8066.16.camel@brekeke>

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Am 07.06.2012 01:38, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 23:30 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> I'm confused to find bad PEBs I'd still need a full scan, right?
> 
> If full scan means call mtd_block_isbad() for each PEB, then yes.
> 
>>>  	ret = ubi_io_read(ubi, fmsb, sb_pnum, ubi->leb_start, sizeof(*fmsb));
>>>  	if (ret && ret != UBI_IO_BITFLIPS) {
>>> +		/* TODO: what are the error codes > 0 ? Why is this check? */
>>
>> To catch UBI_IO_BAD_HDR, UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_EBADMSG and friends.
> 
> Which are never returned by ubi_io_read().

Also never ever in future?
If so, I'll drop this check.

>> AFAIK ->magic is the only __b32 field where I not use be32_to_cpu() because it's useless here.
> 
> Why is it useless?
> 
> if we have the following bytes starting from address 0xC0000000:
> 7B 11 D6 9F
> 
> then we do:
> 
> unsigned int *p = 0xC0000000;
> printk("%#x\n", *p);
> 
> we should see:
> 
> 0x7B11D69F on BE system (e.g., powerpc)
> and
> 0x9FD6117B on LE system (e.g., x86).
> 

Damit, you are right!
Sorry,
//richard


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-05 15:11 [PATCH 0/5] UBI: fastmap: add few todos Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-05 15:11 ` [PATCH 1/5] UBI: fastmap: add more TODOs Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-06 21:30   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-06 23:38     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-06 23:46       ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2012-06-06 23:45         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-05 15:11 ` [PATCH 2/5] UBI: fastmap: kill junk newlines and add a TODO about that Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-06 21:30   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-06 23:29     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-05 15:11 ` [PATCH 3/5] UBI: fastmap: more nitpicks Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-06 21:30   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-05 15:11 ` [PATCH 4/5] UBI: fastmap: more annoying TODOs Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-05 15:11 ` [PATCH 5/5] UBI: fastmap: more tiny TODOs Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-06 21:30   ` Richard Weinberger

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