[PATCH V3 1/9] mtd: add more comment for ecc_strength/ecc_size
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 02:32:12 EDT 2013
I would recommend different wording, describing what they represent
rather than how we accomplish it. See below.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Huang Shijie <b32955 at freescale.com> wrote:
> Add more commit for ecc_strength and ecc_size fields.
> We can treat the comment as the initial semantics for the two fields.
>
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955 at freescale.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 5458021..c1cc690 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
> @@ -436,7 +436,9 @@ struct nand_buffers {
> * @cellinfo: [INTERN] MLC/multichip data from chip ident
> * @ecc_strength: [INTERN] ECC correctability from the datasheet.
How about just: "minimum number of bits correctability, if known; if
unknown, set to 0
> * @ecc_size: [INTERN] ECC size required by the @ecc_strength,
> - * also from the datasheet.
> + * also from the datasheet. If we do not know the
> + * @ecc_size and @ecc_strength of the nand chips, we can
> + * set zeros to them which are the default value.
"recommend ECC step size, if known; if unknown, set to 0"
> * @numchips: [INTERN] number of physical chips
> * @chipsize: [INTERN] the size of one chip for multichip arrays
> * @pagemask: [INTERN] page number mask = number of (pages / chip) - 1
Brian
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