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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [U-Boot, V2, 2/2] mtd: nand: omap: fix ecc ops assignment when changing ecc
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:49:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131217234904.GA741@home.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387286281-17985-1-git-send-email-nikita@compulab.co.il>

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 03:18:01PM +0200, Nikita Kiryanov wrote:
> If we change to software ecc and then back to hardware ecc, the nand ecc ops
> pointers are populated with incorrect function pointers. This is related to the
> way nand_scan_tail() handles assigning functions to ecc ops:
> 
> If we are switching to software ecc/no ecc, it assigns default functions to the
> ecc ops pointers unconditionally, but if we are switching to hardware ecc,
> the default hardware ecc functions are assigned to ops pointers only if these
> pointers are NULL (so that drivers could set their own functions). In the case
> of omap_gpmc.c driver, when we switch to sw ecc, sw ecc functions are
> assigned to ecc ops by nand_scan_tail(), and when we later switch to hw ecc,
> the ecc ops pointers are not NULL, so nand_scan_tail() does not overwrite
> them with hw ecc functions.
> The result: sw ecc functions used to write hw ecc data.
> 
> Clear the ecc ops pointers in omap_gpmc.c when switching ecc types, so that
> ops which were not assigned by the driver will get the correct default values
> from nand_scan_tail().
> 
> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> Cc: Pekon Gupta <pekon@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nikita Kiryanov <nikita@compulab.co.il>
> 
> ---
> Changes in V2:
> 	- Clear the ops after error checks, not before.
> 	- Use memset on ecc struct to clear the ops.
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/omap_gpmc.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Applied to u-boot-nand-flash.git

-Scott

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-17 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-16 17:19 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] omap_gpmc nand ecc switch bug fixes Nikita Kiryanov
2013-12-16 17:19 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mtd: nand: omap: fix sw->hw->sw ecc switch Nikita Kiryanov
2013-12-17 23:47   ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Scott Wood
2013-12-16 17:19 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] mtd: nand: omap: fix ecc ops assignment when changing ecc Nikita Kiryanov
2013-12-16 23:03   ` Scott Wood
2013-12-17 13:16     ` Nikita Kiryanov
2013-12-17 13:18   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 " Nikita Kiryanov
2013-12-17 23:49     ` Scott Wood [this message]

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