[PATCH] mtd: nand: sunxi: Fix ECC strength choice
Miquel Raynal
miquel.raynal at free-electrons.com
Wed Jan 24 14:59:36 PST 2018
Hello,
On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:49:31 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> When the requested ECC strength does not exactly match the strengths
> supported by the ECC engine, the driver is selecting the closest
> strength meeting the 'selected_strength > requested_strength'
> constraint. Fix the fact that, in this particular case, ecc->strength
> value was not updated to match the 'selected_strength'.
>
> For instance, one can encounter this issue when no ECC requirement is
> filled in the device tree while the NAND chip minimum requirement is not
> a strength/step_size combo natively supported by the ECC engine.
>
I forgot to add the Fixes/CC tags, but it seems that this problem
has always been out there...
Fixes: 1fef62c1423b ("mtd: nand: add sunxi NAND flash controller
support")
CC: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at free-electrons.com>
I will wait a review before sending a v2.
Thanks,
Miquèl
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