Question on 'doc_read_ecc'...

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Sep 27 10:10:29 EDT 2000


sjhill at cotw.com said:
> If I am understanding things correctly, in 'doc_read_ecc' we prevent
> the caller from reading across a 512 byte boundary and that they
> cannot read more than 512 bytes at a time. Is this correct for DoC2xxx
> devices and should it be the case for NAND devices as well? I believe
> that for NAND devices it makes sense since VFS and filesystems on
> average assume a 512 byte sector size. Just looking for agreement on
> my thought process. 

Scrap the limitation. It was OK when the only use of doc2000 was NFTL, but 
now it's broken. doc2000.c ought to do the right thing.

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dwmw2




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