[PATCH] MTD: treat any negative return value from correct() as an error

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 17 October 2007 14:33:23 -0700, mattjreimer at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Treat any negative return value from a NAND driver's correct() function
> as a failure, rather than just -1. Some drivers (e.g. diskonchip) can
> return error values such as -EIO, which ended up being treated as the
> number of bits corrected, which in turn resulted in nand_do_read_ops()
> returning -EUCLEAN rather than -EBADMSG.

What an interesting patch.

NACK on patch description.  Several things are wrong with this:
o -EIO shouldn't become -EBADMSG any more than -EUCLEAN.  It should
  remain -EIO and nothing else.
o I cannot see how diskonchip can return -EIO.  Only -ERANGE.
o rtc_from4_correct_data() and doc200x_correct_data() will basically
  pass on -ERANGE from decode_rs8() or decode_rs16(), respectively.
  Afaict decode_rsXX() should just BUG() instead.

However I like the patch itself, because it allows one to rename those
magic -1 return values to self-documenting -EBADMSG.

Jörn

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