[PATCH V2 0/4] mtd: nand: add enum nand_ecc_algo

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Wed Mar 23 03:43:57 PDT 2016


On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:18:59 +0100
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some time ago I started working on a new "nand-ecc-algo" property to allow
> specifying ECC algorithm for hardware ECC mode as well.
> Boris pointed out it's becoming a bit messy that way as we already have value
> NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH.
> I suggested deprecating "soft_bch" value from nand-ecc-mode property and got
> Boris agreed and no objections from others. So there is how I want to implement
> this.
> If you agree on this way & apply my patches, I'll start modifying NAND drivers
> (similarly to the nandsim) and then will try to drop NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH except
> for handling backward compatibility.
> Then finally we should be able to add "nand-ecc-algo" property support properly.
> 
> V2: Add of_get_nand_ecc_algo helper (in 2/4) instead of this slightly hacky code
>     in nand_dt_init that would be replaced anyway.

This version looks good to me. If nobody disagree, I'll apply
those patches on my future nand/next branch.

Thanks,

Boris

> 
> Rafał Miłecki (4):
>   mtd: nand: add new enum for storing ECC algorithm
>   of: mtd: prepare helper reading NAND ECC algo from DT
>   mtd: nand: set ECC algorithm in nand_dt_init
>   mtd: nand: nandsim: set ECC algorithm explicitly
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |  6 +++++-
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c   |  2 ++
>  drivers/of/of_mtd.c          | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/mtd/nand.h     |  7 +++++++
>  include/linux/of_mtd.h       |  6 ++++++
>  5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 



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