[PATCH v11 2/2] dt-bindings: mtd: Document boolean NAND ECC properties

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Mon Jun 29 19:08:00 EDT 2020


On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:13:57AM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Document nand-use-soft-ecc-engine and nand-no-ecc-engine properties.
> The former is here to force software correction, the latter prevents
> any correction to happen.
> 
> These properties (along with nand-ecc-engine) are supposed to be more
> accurate than the current nand-ecc-modes wich is very misleading and
> very often people think it is mandatory while the core should be
> relied upon to decide which correction to handle.
> 
> nand-ecc-mode was already inacurate, but it becomes totally
> problematic with setups where there are several hardware engines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand-controller.yaml | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand-controller.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand-controller.yaml
> index 0969d2e6720b..a3750978ebb8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand-controller.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand-controller.yaml
> @@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ patternProperties:
>            3/ The ECC engine is external, in this case the phandle should
>            reference the specific ECC engine node.
>  
> +      nand-use-soft-ecc-engine: true
> +        description: Use a software ECC engine.
> +
> +      nand-no-ecc-engine: true
> +        description: Do not use any ECC correction.
> +

Still the same problem as v10.

You want:

nand-no-ecc-engine:
  type: boolean
  description: Do not use any ECC correction.

>        nand-ecc-placement:
>          allOf:
>            - $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 



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