[PATCH] mtd: nand: sunxi: Fix ECC strength choice

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Thu Jan 25 02:05:54 PST 2018


On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:59:36 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:49:31 +0100
> Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> > When the requested ECC strength does not exactly match the strengths
> > supported by the ECC engine, the driver is selecting the closest
> > strength meeting the 'selected_strength > requested_strength'
> > constraint. Fix the fact that, in this particular case, ecc->strength
> > value was not updated to match the 'selected_strength'.
> > 
> > For instance, one can encounter this issue when no ECC requirement is
> > filled in the device tree while the NAND chip minimum requirement is not
> > a strength/step_size combo natively supported by the ECC engine.
> >   
> 
> I forgot to add the Fixes/CC tags, but it seems that this problem
> has always been out there...
> 
> Fixes: 1fef62c1423b ("mtd: nand: add sunxi NAND flash controller
> support")
> CC: stable at vger.kernel.org

No need to send a new version. I added the Fixes+stable tags when
applying.

Thanks,

Boris

> 
> > Suggested-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at free-electrons.com>  
> 
> I will wait a review before sending a v2.
> 
> Thanks,
> Miquèl




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