[PATCH 00/11] mtd: nand_bbt: introduce independent nand BBT

Peter Pan peterpansjtu at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 00:56:56 PDT 2016


On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:47:53 +0000
> Peter Pan <peterpansjtu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for send the v3 out late. I went through a busy time in the past
>> two month.
>>
>> Currently nand_bbt.c is tied with struct nand_chip, and it makes other
>> NAND family chips hard to use nand_bbt.c. Maybe it's the reason why
>> onenand has own bbt(onenand_bbt.c).
>>
>> Separate struct nand_chip from BBT code can make current BBT shareable.
>> We create struct nand_bbt to take place of nand_chip in nand_bbt.c.
>> Struct nand_bbt contains all the information BBT needed from outside and
>> it should be embedded into NAND family chip struct (such as struct nand_chip).
>>
>> Below is mtd folder structure we want:
>>       drivers/mtd/nand/<all-nand-core-code>
>>       drivers/mtd/nand/raw/<raw-nand-controller-drivers>
>>       drivers/mtd/nand/spi/<spi-nand-code>
>>       drivers/mtd/nand/onenand/<onenand-code>
>>       drivers/mtd/nand/chips/<manufacturer-spcific-code>
>
> Hm, we should have a chips directory under each interface type, because
> vendor specific handling is dependent on the NAND interface.
> Otherwise, yes, that's the idea.

Update this in v4

Thanks,
Peter Pan



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