[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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