[patch 2.6.29-rc3] NAND: fix "raw" reads with ECC syndrome layouts

David Brownell david-b at pacbell.net
Thu Feb 5 17:34:00 EST 2009


On Monday 02 February 2009, David Brownell wrote:
> The current syndrome-based drivers in mainline all seem to use one
> chunk per page; which is presumably why they've not hit this bug.

Hmm, no comments?  It seems the ECC_HW_SYNDROME stuff isn't
especially familiar to many folk...


> Fix ... by adding read/write page_raw_syndrome() routines as
> siblings of the existing non-raw routines; "raw" just means to
> bypass the ECC computations, not mutate data and OOB layout.





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