[PATCH v13 07/20] dt-bindings: mtd: Document boolean NAND ECC properties

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Mon Sep 7 03:24:34 EDT 2020


On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 08:51:55 UTC, 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>
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next.

Miquel



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