[PATCH v3 07/10] mtd: IFC NAND: utilize oob_required parameter

[Scott Wood]

On 04/30/2012 02:23 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
>> On 04/30/2012 02:08 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
>>> Is the read_page change sane?
>>
>> It should be harmless.
> 
> Right, but I am now handling Shmulik's comments about auto-incremented
> NAND. It seems like there are few/no users of auto-incrementing page
> reads, but if any driver relied on reading page,oob,page,oob,etc.
> without a READ command in between, then we might cause problems by
> skipping the OOB buffer read. Of course, with various NAND
> controllers/drivers, this issue is hard for me to sort through.

This isn't an issue with eLBC/IFC -- besides not currently supporting
autoincrement, the OOB is still read.  We just wouldn't pull it out of
the controller buffer.  Not sure if the time saved is significant.

-Scott