[PATCH v2] mtd-nand: davinci: correct 4-bit error correction

Sudhakar Rajashekhara sudhakar.raj at ti.com
Thu Jul 15 08:03:03 EDT 2010


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 17:11:32, Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:31:19, Jon Povey wrote:
> > Sudhakar Rajashekhara wrote:
> > > On TI's DA830/OMAP-L137, DA850/OMAP-L138 and DM365, after setting the
> > > 4BITECC_ADD_CALC_START bit in the NAND Flash control register to 1 and
> > > before waiting for the NAND Flash status register to be equal to 1, 2
> > > or 3, we have to wait till the ECC HW goes to correction state.
> > > Without this wait, ECC correction calculations will not be proper.
> > >
> > > This has been tested on DA830/OMAP-L137, DA850/OMAP-L138, DM355 and
> > > DM365 EVMs.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj at ti.com>
> > > Acked-by: Sneha Narnakaje <nsnehaprabha at ti.com>
> > > Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> > 
> > Have these people acked and signed off this new version of the patch?
> > 
> 
> No. Andrew Morton has not signed off this version. I'll remove
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> 

Andrew Morton had signed off an earlier version of this patch and
it was present in -mm tree for a long time. He has not yet commented
on v2 version of this patch. But I thought I can carry forward the
Sign-offs from previous version to the next version. What's the common
practice?

Thanks,
Sudhakar






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