[PATCH V4 1/9] mtd: add more comment for ecc_strength/ecc_size

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed May 15 03:27:50 EDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 17:08 +0800, Huang Shijie 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>

Huang, let me drop the 3 patches I already merged. Please, re-send them
in v5. I think this is better because I see you start applying patches
on top of them, which is a bit confusing.

>   * @cellinfo:		[INTERN] MLC/multichip data from chip ident
>   * @ecc_strength:	[INTERN] ECC correctability from the datasheet.
> + *			The minimum number of bits correctability, if known;
> + *			if unknown, set to 0.

I find this confusing still. How about this comment.

ECC correctability from the datasheet. Minumum amount of bit errors per
@ecc_size guaranteed to be correctable). If unknown, set to zero.


>   * @ecc_size:		[INTERN] ECC size required by the @ecc_strength,
> - *                      also from the datasheet.
> + *                      also from the datasheet. It is the recommended ECC step
> + *			size, if known; if unknown, set to 0.

Silly question, why you call this one "ecc_size", and not "ecc_step"?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy




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