Can't enable ecc check in mtd.

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 21:09 +0800, zheng wei wrote:
> Hi, sir
>  I cannot enable ecc check in mtd, the message in nand.c, func int
> nand_write_page (),
> printk (KERN_WARNING "Writing data without ECC to NAND-FLASH is not
> recommended\n");
> 
> In mtd/nand.c,
> static int nand_write_page (struct mtd_info *mtd, struct nand_chip
> *this, int page, u_char *oob_buf,  struct nand_oobinfo *oobsel)
> {
> 	int 	i, status;
> 	u_char	ecc_code[6], *oob_data;
> 	int	eccmode = oobsel->useecc ? this->eccmode : NAND_ECC_NONE;
> //??????? I have initialize the eccmode to NAND_ECC_HW3_512,

Maybe, but the variable which is checked is oobsel->useecc.

Read http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/tech/mtdnand/index.html
and  http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/tech/mtdnand/x215.html
and  http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/tech/mtdnand/c460.html

> I have enable the ecc check in mizi linux 2.4.18 for ARM2410.

Read http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/#kernelversions

tglx