[PATCH 28/74] Incrementing the ecc_pos array to contain 128 char

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 08:14:29 EDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:13 +0530, Viresh KUMAR wrote:
> From: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar at st.com>
> 
> For a page size of 4096, the number of oob bytes are 128 per page. This demands
> for an increased ecc_pos array as well as ecc can be placed at more than 64
> locations.
> 
> This patch is added because SPEAr platforms NAND controller has 13 bytes of ecc
> for each 512 bytes of data. This results in 104 bytes of ecc in case of 4096
> byte page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar at st.com>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at st.com>

Nack, breaking ABI Is not allowed in Linux.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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