[PATCH] treat OOB as a single chunk of oobavail bytes

Charles Manning manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz
Thu Dec 1 17:03:58 EST 2005


On Wednesday 30 November 2005 21:54, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> I've kept the read_ecc/read_oob interface as it was. The reasons behind
> are: - permitting NULL data for read_ecc in order to facilitate pure OOB
> read will overcomplicate the implementation and will require API change (i.
> e. how much of the OOB to read, at least)
> - read_oob provides additional capabilities like reading the OOB from a
> specified offset.

No worries at all.

<snip yaffs2 stuff shifted to yaffs list>

-- CHarles




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