[PATCH 0/2] New NAND chip IDs

[Boris Brezillon]

Hi Hans,

Here is a more appropriate answer ;-)

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:49:58 +0200
Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 07/28/2015 04:29 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > the NAND chips on Cubietech boards are not known to Linux.
> >
> > I used Petros Angelatos' patch from sunxi experimental tree for one chip and
> > added another chip.
> >
> > I hope it's ok to send both patches to avoid merge conflict.
> 
> I do not think that these patches are a good idea, this will lead to an
> ever growing manual maintained list of ids, and that is not maintainable
> IMHO.
> 
> For Samsung chips we only need the ecc strength and size the rest is already
> detected on the fly, and I've a patch in my personal tree to get the
> ecc strengt and size from the nand without needing to have an entry per
> chip:
> 
> https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi/commit/53b335d33232753b7aa70298009158baadf5a6bf
> 
> This is IMHO a much better solution.

Yes, indeed, this is a better approach, but AFAIR, not all Samsung
chips use this layout to expose the ECC strength/size info, and I
guess this is why this method is not used to retrieve the ECC
requirements.

But I think we could avoid this full ids list by putting some
detection code into vendor specific files, this way we could handle
chips by families instead of describing all of them.

Best Regards,

Boris
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