[PATCH v4 6/6] mtd: update the ABI document about the ecc step size

Huang Shijie shijie8 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 23:26:47 EDT 2013


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 04:45:59PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 10:10 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> > +
> > +What:          /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ecc_step_size
> > +Date:          May 2013
> > +KernelVersion: 3.10
> > +Contact:       linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> > +Description:
> > +               The size of each ECC step which is used for ECC.
> > +               Note that some devices will have multiple ecc steps within each
> > +               writesize region.
> 
> Actually this phrase is a bit confusing because it may be interpreted as
> that one write-size may have ECC steps of multiple sizes. Would you
> re-phrase, may be?
What's about the following:
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   The size of each ECC step which is used for ECC.
   Note that some devices will have multiple ecc steps within each
   writesize region, and the ecc steps share the same size.
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thanks
Huang Shijie



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