[RESEND PATCH v3 4/5] mtd: nand: make 'erased check' optional

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Thu Sep 3 10:19:52 PDT 2015


On Thu,  3 Sep 2015 18:03:41 +0200
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Some ECC controllers do not need the extra 'erased check' done by the core.
> Make it optional by creating a new NAND_ECC_DISABLE_ERASED_CHECK flag.
> 
> Reed-Solomon ECC engines are guaranteed to generate ff ECC bytes when the
> page in empty and are thus able to fix bitflips in erased pages.

s/Reed-Solomon/Hamming/


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