[PATCH] Newly erased page read workaround

[viresh kumar]

On 02/24/2011 11:40 AM, Viresh KUMAR wrote:
> From: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar at st.com>
> 
> A newly erased page contains ff in data as well as spare area. While reading an
> erased page, the read out ecc from spare area does not match the ecc generated
> by fsmc ecc hardware accelarator. This is because ecc of data ff ff is not ff
> ff. This leads to errors when jffs2 fs erases and reads back the pages to
> ensure consistency.
> 
> This patch adds a software workaround to ensure that the ecc check is not
> performed for erased pages. An erased page is checked by checking data as ff ff.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar at st.com>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at st.com>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at stericsson.com>

Artem, David,

Have you pushed this patch for 39-rc1?

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viresh