[PATCH] mtd: nand: expand description of read_page method in comment header
Mike Dunn
mikedunn at newsguy.com
Tue Sep 11 11:59:03 EDT 2012
In the absence of any formal documentation of the nand interface, I thought this
patch to the header file might be helpful.
Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn at newsguy.com>
---
include/linux/mtd/nand.h | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
index 8f99d36..8d18313 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
@@ -326,9 +326,10 @@ struct nand_hw_control {
* @read_page_raw: function to read a raw page without ECC
* @write_page_raw: function to write a raw page without ECC
* @read_page: function to read a page according to the ECC generator
- * requirements.
+ * requirements. Returns maximum number of bitflips corrected in
+ * any single ecc step, 0 if bitflips uncorrectible, -EIO hw error.
* @read_subpage: function to read parts of the page covered by ECC.
+ * Returns same as read_page().
* @write_page: function to write a page according to the ECC generator
* requirements.
* @write_oob_raw: function to write chip OOB data without ECC
--
1.7.3.4
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