[PATCH 1/2] MTD: atmel_nand: Update Kconfig to support PMECC

Hong Xu hong.xu at atmel.com
Sun Dec 18 20:58:28 EST 2011


On 12/17/2011 11:33 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 09:58 +0800, Hong Xu wrote:
>> PMECC is not compatible with the old HW ECC engine. It currently needs
>> around 700 lines of C code to make it work. If we do not have a way to
>> exclude the PMECC related code at compiling time, my quick testing shows
>> that the driver code size will be doubled if some old SoCs do not
>> support it. This sounds not good. What's your opinion?
>
> Well, depends on its size. Say, if it is about 8KiB - then doubling it
> is probably not a big deal.
>

Hmm.., not that big, less than 8KB. OK, I'll send out another patch 
removing the stuff modified in Kconfig.

Thanks!

BR,
Eric



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