[RFC PATCH 00/10] OMAP: GPMC: NAND: Introduce GPMC APIs for OMAP NAND

[Tony Lindgren]

* Roger Quadros <rogerq at ti.com> [140711 03:25]:
> On 07/11/2014 12:42 PM, Gupta, Pekon wrote:
> >
> > Therefore, I suggest you to move following code from NAND driver to
> > GPMC driver, nothing other than. And this exported function does not
> > need any NAND framework information, except number_of_sectors.
> 
> Well I you have still not pointed out what is the benefit of that approach or what are the problems with the approach I am suggesting.
> 
> I am suggesting that the API just return the ECC/BCH result registers as it is.
> You are suggesting that the API do the calculations and return the NAND ready ECC buffer.
> 
> To do the calculations it needs to know about the ECC scheme which is NAND controller specific and this is unnecessary in the GPMC driver.
> 
> Tony, what is your opinion?

As long as the GPMC registers are exposed to drivers in a controlled
way and we have only one driver using the ECC registers, I don't care.

Regards,

Tony