[PATCH 1/5] UBI: fastmap: add more TODOs

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 07.06.2012 01:38, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 23:30 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> I'm confused to find bad PEBs I'd still need a full scan, right?
> 
> If full scan means call mtd_block_isbad() for each PEB, then yes.
> 
>>>  	ret = ubi_io_read(ubi, fmsb, sb_pnum, ubi->leb_start, sizeof(*fmsb));
>>>  	if (ret && ret != UBI_IO_BITFLIPS) {
>>> +		/* TODO: what are the error codes > 0 ? Why is this check? */
>>
>> To catch UBI_IO_BAD_HDR, UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_EBADMSG and friends.
> 
> Which are never returned by ubi_io_read().

Also never ever in future?
If so, I'll drop this check.

>> AFAIK ->magic is the only __b32 field where I not use be32_to_cpu() because it's useless here.
> 
> Why is it useless?
> 
> if we have the following bytes starting from address 0xC0000000:
> 7B 11 D6 9F
> 
> then we do:
> 
> unsigned int *p = 0xC0000000;
> printk("%#x\n", *p);
> 
> we should see:
> 
> 0x7B11D69F on BE system (e.g., powerpc)
> and
> 0x9FD6117B on LE system (e.g., x86).
> 

Damit, you are right!
Sorry,
//richard

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