[PATCH v3 09/10] mtd: nand: utilize oob_required parameter

[Brian Norris]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 04/30/2012 02:59 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
>> I see. This is the kind of issue I was alluding to back in v2:
>>
>> "For instance, is there any sort of hardware that expects the whole
>> page + OOB to be read via chip->read_buf() for all reads..."
>>
>> This situation comes up if NAND_NO_AUTOINCR is not set. But really, it
>> looks like we *always* have NAND_NO_AUTOINCR enabled, and so we
>> *always* send a new READ cmd. I know that it's possible for some board
>> driver to override this, but I don't see that anywhere...
>
> If it's never used, maybe just remove autoincrement support altogether
> and simplify the code?

Fine with me. I'd like some word from a Artem or David though.

I've started a patch for this and will send it before I send a v4 if
killing autoincrement is acceptable. Otherwise, I'll just work around
autoincrement for this series with the previously-posted snippet.

Brian