[PATCH v6 0/3] mtd: nand: gpmi: add proper raw access support

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 10:01:01 PST 2014


On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:21:50AM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 08:47:43 +0800 Huang Shijie <shijie.huang at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 09:58:58AM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > > On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:47:09 -0800 Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Also, is it time to yank / fixup some of these comments from
> > > > gpmi-nand.c?
> > > 
> > > I was asking myself the same question...
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > >  ...
> > > >  * FIXME: The following paragraph is incorrect, now that there exist
> > > >  * ecc.read_oob_raw and ecc.write_oob_raw functions.
> > > >  *
> > > >  * Since MTD assumes the OOB is not covered by ECC, there is no pair of
> > > >  * ECC-based/raw functions for reading or or writing the OOB. The fact that the
> > > >  * caller wants an ECC-based or raw view of the page is not propagated down to
> > > >  * this driver.
> > > >  */
> > > 
> > > I guess we can remove them.
> > > Huang can you confirm that the raw access functions introduced in this
> > > series are covering what's described here ?
> > I think we can remove these comments now.
> 
> Brian, do you want me to send this patch or are you taking care of it ?

Go ahead and send a patch.

Brian



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