[PATCH v3 0/2] Add NAND ECC devicetree binding
Ezequiel Garcia
ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Fri Feb 28 09:59:24 EST 2014
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:24:47PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Third round, fixing a stupid semi-colon miss.
>
> NAND controllers have special ECC modes, raising per-driver ECC mode devicetree
> binding. See for instance the binding for OMAP:
>
> - ti,nand-ecc-opt: A string setting the ECC layout to use. One of:
> "sw" <deprecated> use "ham1" instead
> "hw" <deprecated> use "ham1" instead
> "hw-romcode" <deprecated> use "ham1" instead
> "ham1" 1-bit Hamming ecc code
> "bch4" 4-bit BCH ecc code
> "bch8" 8-bit BCH ecc code
>
> Other drivers (such as pxa3xx-nand) have similar requirements, with special
> (controller-specific) ECC modes. Instead of adding a possibly different
> binding per compatible-string, let's add generic ECC strength and ECC step size.
>
> This properties aim at providing a complete description of the required ECC
> correction to let drivers choose the appropriate ECC mode.
>
> Changes from v2:
>
> * Added a missing semi-colon.
>
> Changes from v1:
>
> * Improve the binding documentation, as per Brian Norris' suggestions.
>
> * Added the helper functions.
>
> Ezequiel Garcia (2):
> of_mtd: Add helpers to get ECC strength and ECC step size
> mtd: nand: Add a devicetree binding for ECC strength and ECC step size
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt | 14 +++++++++++
> drivers/of/of_mtd.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/of_mtd.h | 12 +++++++++
> 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+)
>
Brian? Any chance this lands on v3.15?
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
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