mtd: update the ABI document about the ecc step size

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Fri Aug 30 16:59:04 EDT 2013


Gitweb:     http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ed202940335e3f9930509025e3d75721e564baca
Commit:     ed202940335e3f9930509025e3d75721e564baca
Parent:     f720e7ce510bf79f029be45ce200ccfce5551280
Author:     Huang Shijie <b32955 at freescale.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Aug 16 10:10:09 2013 +0800
Committer:  David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
CommitDate: Fri Aug 30 21:38:45 2013 +0100

    mtd: update the ABI document about the ecc step size
    
    We add a new sys node for ecc step size. So update the ABI document about it.
    
    Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955 at freescale.com>
    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
    [Brian: edited description, modified 'ecc_strength']
    Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
    
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
index 3105644..bfd119a 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
@@ -128,9 +128,8 @@ KernelVersion:	3.4
 Contact:	linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
 Description:
 		Maximum number of bit errors that the device is capable of
-		correcting within each region covering an ecc step.  This will
-		always be a non-negative integer.  Note that some devices will
-		have multiple ecc steps within each writesize region.
+		correcting within each region covering an ECC step (see
+		ecc_step_size).  This will always be a non-negative integer.
 
 		In the case of devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0.
 
@@ -173,3 +172,15 @@ Description:
 		This is generally applicable only to NAND flash devices with ECC
 		capability.  It is ignored on devices lacking ECC capability;
 		i.e., devices for which ecc_strength is zero.
+
+What:		/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ecc_step_size
+Date:		May 2013
+KernelVersion:	3.10
+Contact:	linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+		The size of a single region covered by ECC, known as the ECC
+		step.  Devices may have several equally sized ECC steps within
+		each writesize region.
+
+		It will always be a non-negative integer.  In the case of
+		devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0.



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