[PATCH v3 0/3] mtd: Add sysfs entries and account BBT blocks properly

[Brian Norris]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:55:49AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Here's a new round of the patchset to add sysfs entries for the ECC stats
> struct fields. See the discussion around previous version for context:
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2014-March/052804.html
> 
> Changes from v2:
> 
>   * As suggested by Pekon Gupta, use "ecc_failures" instead of
>     "uncorrectable_errors".
> 
>   * Added documentation for the new sysfs ABI as requested by Greg KH.
> 
> Changes from v1:
> 
>   * As agreed I've added a sysfs file per field to replace the ecc_stats
>     sysfs file. The current proposal follows the "one file per value" sysfs
>     rule, adding the following device attributes:
>     - corrected_bits (ecc_stats.corrected)
>     - uncorrectable_errors (ecc_stats.failed)
>     - bad_blocks (ecc_stats.badblocks)
>     - bbt_blocks (ecc_stats.bbtblocks)
> 
>   * Following Brian's request, added small wrapper nand_block_isreserved()
>     that checks if the NAND has a bad block table before querying the number
>     of reserved blocks.
> 
>   * Finally, this new series drops patch: "nand: Account the blocks used by
>     the BBT in the ecc_stats". It's not yet clear how to best deal with the
>     current inconsistencies in MTD master and partition handling.
> 
> The first patch adds the sysfs entries. The rest of the patches fixes the
> bbtblock accounting and allows to keep track of the reserved blocks correctly.
> 
> This is a very old issue, probably around since the dawn of time,
> and nobody seemed to care much about it. However, with the introduction of
> the sysfs access, it's easier to access this stats and easier to
> see the issue.

Pushed to l2-mtd.git, with the small tweaks I noted for patch 1. Thanks!

Brian