[PATCH v2] MTD: at91: atmel_nand: return bit flips for the PMECC read_page()

Mike Dunn mikedunn at newsguy.com
Tue Nov 27 13:59:13 EST 2012


On 11/27/2012 02:50 AM, Josh Wu wrote:
> This patch fix pmecc's read_page() to return maximum number of bitflips, 0 if uncorrectable.
> 
> In the commit: 3f91e94f7f511de74c0d2abe08672ccdbdd1961c ("mtd: nand: read_page() returns max_bitflips ()"),
> The ecc.read_page() is changed to return the maximum number of bitflips.
> And when meet uncorrectable bitflips it needs to return 0.
> 
> See the comment in nand.h:
>  * @read_page:	function to read a page according to the ECC generator
>  *		requirements; returns maximum number of bitflips corrected in
>  *		any single ECC step, 0 if bitflips uncorrectable, -EIO hw error
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu at atmel.com>
> ---
> change since v1:
>   1. add detail commit message for the fix.
>   2. return 0 when meet uncorrectable bitflips according to Mike Dunn's suggestion.


Reviewed-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn at newsguy.com>

I see now the pmecc controller patch in the git log.  Nice work.

Mike



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