[PATCH 1/1] Fix ECC Correction bug for SMC ordering for NDFC driver.
Stefan Roese
sr at denx.de
Fri Aug 21 04:02:15 EDT 2009
On Friday 21 August 2009 02:19:17 Feng Kan wrote:
> Fix ECC Correction bug where the byte offset location were double
> fliped causing correction routine to toggle the wrong byte location
> in the ECC segment. The ndfc_calculate_ecc routine change the order
> of getting the ECC code.
> /* The NDFC uses Smart Media (SMC) bytes order */
> ecc_code[0] = p[2];
> ecc_code[1] = p[1];
> ecc_code[2] = p[3];
> But in the Correction algorithm when calculating the byte offset
> location, the b1 is used as the upper part of the address. Which
> again reverse the order making the final byte offset address
> location incorrect.
> byte_addr = (addressbits[b1] << 4) + addressbits[b0];
> The order is change to read it in straight and let the correction
> function to revert it to SMC order.
>
> Signed-off-by: Feng Kan <fkan at amcc.com>
> Acked-by: Victor Gallardo <vgallardo at amcc.com>
> Acked-by: Prodyut Hazarika <phazarika at amcc.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
Would be great if we could get this fix into 2.6.31.
Cheers,
Stefan
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