question about nand_do_read_oob/nand_do_read_ops when "mtd_oob_ops.mode==MTD_OOB_PLACE"?

[Shawn RONG <shawn.rong@st.com>]

Hi all,

Based on doc "[MTD] Rework the out of band handling completely", I think when MTD_OOB_PLACE is selected, the read length should have nothing to do with value of mtd_oob_ops.oobavail, which is only related with MTD_OOB_AUTO mode.(See reference in the end)

while in function nand_do_read_oob() and nand_do_read_ops() in nand_base.c, the read length is affected by value of mtd_oob_ops.oobavail, e.g.
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nand_do_read_oob():
	if (ops->mode == MTD_OOB_RAW)
		len = mtd->oobsize;
	else
		len = chip->ecc.layout->oobavail;
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nand_do_read_ops():
				if (ops->mode != MTD_OOB_RAW) {
					int toread = min(oobreadlen,
						chip->ecc.layout->oobavail);
					if (toread) {
						oob = nand_transfer_oob(chip,
							oob, ops, toread);
						oobreadlen -= toread;
					}
				} else
					buf = nand_transfer_oob(chip,
						buf, ops, mtd->oobsize);
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Could anyone tell me why? I think handle above for mode MTD_OOB_PLACE should be same to MTD_OOB_RAW, not MTD_OOB_AUTO.

Someone has also the same question: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-February/017469.html

In his test, maybe this is a bug?

Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks!

Reference:
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http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd-cvs/2006-May/005519.html

MTD_OOB_PLACE puts/gets the given oob data exactly to/from the place which is described by the ooboffs and ooblen fields of the mtd_oob_ops strcuture. It's up to the caller to make sure that the byte positions are not used by the ECC placement algorithms.
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