From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/3] mtd: nand: Add an option to maximize the ECC strength
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:04:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160610140441.GA4743@rob-hp-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465398264-8202-2-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 05:04:22PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> The generic NAND DT bindings allows one to tweak the ECC strength and
> step size to their need. It can be used to lower the ECC strength to
> match a bootloader/firmware config, but might also be used to get a better
> reliability.
>
> In the latter case, the user might want to use the maximum ECC strength
> without having to explicitly calculate the exact value (this value not
> only depends on the OOB size, but also on the NAND controller, and can
> be tricky to extract).
>
> Add a generic 'nand-ecc-maximize' DT property and the associated
> NAND_ECC_MAXIMIZE flag, to let ECC controller drivers select the best
> ECC strength and step-size on their own.
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt | 9 +++++++++
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 3 +++
> include/linux/mtd/nand.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-10 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-08 15:04 [RESEND PATCH 0/3] mtd: nand: standardize ECC maximization Boris Brezillon
2016-06-08 15:04 ` [RESEND PATCH 1/3] mtd: nand: Add an option to maximize the ECC strength Boris Brezillon
2016-06-10 14:04 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2016-06-08 15:04 ` [RESEND PATCH 2/3] mtd: nand: Support maximizing ECC when using software BCH Boris Brezillon
2016-06-08 15:04 ` [RESEND PATCH 3/3] mtd: nand: sunxi: Support ECC maximization Boris Brezillon
2016-09-16 13:08 ` [RESEND PATCH 0/3] mtd: nand: standardize " Boris Brezillon
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