[PATCH v4 1/5] mtd: nand: Detect Micron flash with on-die ECC (aka "internal ECC") enabled.

David Mosberger davidm at egauge.net
Wed Apr 2 10:02:50 PDT 2014


Gerhard,

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Gerhard Sittig <gsi at denx.de> wrote:

> Just provide tools, don't encode policy.

Hey, I'm all for separating mechanism and policy.
It's just not what exists in the NAND driver now.
AFAIK, ECC selection is *per chip* (not per filesystem)
and is hard-coded by a combination of config-options
and platform-specific drivers.  Isn't that true?

> Please take a step back, take a deep breath, and try to see why
> people are asking questions.  It's not that you are being
> rejected or need to "defend" something.  It's the opposite that
> we are trying to create something that scratches more than one
> personal itch, and serves other people's needs as well as yours.

Yes, and I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from.

  --david
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