[PATCH] mtd: nand: gpmi: add proper raw access support

Huang Shijie shijie8 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 08:36:24 PDT 2014


On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:30:50PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:45:50 +0800
> 
> My bad, capabilities might not be the appropriate word in this context.
> I meant ECC algorithm strength, and that's exactly the purpose of
> nandbiterrs testsuite: insert bitflips in in-band data until the MTD
> layer complains about uncorrectable errors.
okay. 

> This test validates what's returned by ecc_strength file in sysfs
> (which in turn is specified by the NAND controller when initializing
> the NAND chip).
> 
> Doing this should not imply knowing the ECC algorithm in use in the
> NAND controller or the layout used to store data on NAND.
the difficulty is that the ECC parity area can be not byte aligned.

As I ever said, it is hard to implement the two hooks.

thanks
Huang Shijie



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