[PATCH v3 1/3] mtd: nand: gpmi: add gpmi_move_bits function

[Huang Shijie]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:04:28PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:58:22PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:54:15 +0800
> > Huang Shijie <shijie8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:07:34PM +0200, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
> > > > Add a new function to move bits (not bytes) from a memory region to
> > > > another one.
> > > > This function is similar to memmove except it acts at bit level.
> > > > This function is needed to implement GPMI raw access functions, given the
> > > > fact that ECC engine does not pad ECC bits to the next byte boundary.
> > > sorry for not comment your v2 patch set.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c  | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.h |  4 ++
> > > >  2 files changed, 92 insertions(+)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c
> > > > index 87e658c..e2f706a 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-lib.c
> > > > @@ -1353,3 +1353,91 @@ int gpmi_read_page(struct gpmi_nand_data *this,
> > > >  	set_dma_type(this, DMA_FOR_READ_ECC_PAGE);
> > > >  	return start_dma_with_bch_irq(this, desc);
> > > >  }
> > > > +
> > > > +void gpmi_move_bits(u8 *dst, size_t dst_bit_off,
> > > > +		    const u8 *src, size_t src_bit_off,
> > > > +		    size_t nbits)
> > > we can simplify the code.
> > 
> > Any suggestions ?
> > 
> > > 
> > > We could use the bytes to replace the @nbits.
> > > 
> > > The chunk data is always byte aligned.
> > 
> > This function is also used to store ECC bits in the OOB buffer and
> > these chunk of data are not byte aligned :-).
> yes. you are right. I missed it.
> 
> could you also comment these two hooks in the patch set.
I mean the @ecc->read_page_raw and @ecc->write_page_raw.

thanks
Huang Shijie