[PATCH 1/2 v2] nand_base: SOFT_BCH: Request strength over bytes

[Brian Norris]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:46:08AM -0600, Aaron Sierra wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Aaron Sierra" <asierra at xes-inc.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 5:41:31 PM
> > 
> > Previously, we requested that drivers pass ecc.size and ecc.bytes when
> > using NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH. However, a driver is likely to only know the ECC
> > strength required for its NAND, so each driver would need to perform a
> > strength-to-bytes calculation.
> > 
> > Avoid duplicating this calculation in each driver by asking drivers to
> > pass ecc.size and ecc.strength so that the strength-to-bytes calculation
> > need only be implemented once.
> > 
> > This reverts/generalizes this commit:
> >     mtd: nand: Base BCH ECC bytes on required strength
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra at xes-inc.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> > v2:
> >     * nandsim: Set ECC strength to chip->ecc.strength
> >     * nand_base: Don't provide ECC bytes-to-strength backward compat
> > 
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c  | 14 ++++++++------
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c    |  1 +
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c |  2 --
> >  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Is this patch still being considered despite the changes requested for
> the 2nd patch in this series?

Sorry, I thought I had queued it up. Pushed this patch to l2-mtd.git
now. Thanks.

Brian