Re: [PATCH 00/16] mtd: nand: sunxi: various improvements/fixes

Boris Brezillon
2016-04-13T15:27:51Z

On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 17:18:17 +0100
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This patchset aims at fixing a few minor bugs, and improving performances
> of NAND accesses going through the sunxi NAND controller.
>
> Note that patch 5 exports functions provided by the core which are needed
> in patch 6 to still support raw OOB accesses. Other patches are just
> fixes or improvements only touching the sunxi driver itself.
>
> Here are the main improvements:
> - queue CLE/ALE requests instead of forcing the controller to issue each
> cmd and address cycle separately
> - benefit from ECC correction on protected OOB bytes
> - use polling instead of interrupt-based waiting (avoid scheduling
> overhead for short wait period)

I'm applying this series since it only touches the sunxi NAND driver,
and I don't expect to have any external reviews :).

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Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering