Initialising NAND OOB with Software ECC

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thursday 13 February 2003 21:20, Phil Thompson wrote:
> What's the standard method for initialising the OOB area for software ECC
> when flashing a new JFFS2 image?
>
> The MEMWRITEDATA ioctl looks at first to be the method to use because it
> uses mtd->write_ecc(). However 0 (ie. NAND_ECC_NONE) is always passed as
> the last parameter which disables writing the ECC data. Wouldn't it be more
> flexible to allow user space to specify the OOB format in the ioctl? Or
> have another ioctl to support writing ECC data?
>
> I know I can use MEMWRITEOOB to write the data, but that means that I have
> to compute it in user space - which seems pointless given the kernel can do
> it.
True. I planned to make an ioctrl so you can write with the appropriate ECC 
selector to NAND, but I hadnt hat the time to do so.
Poke me enough and maybe I find some time

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Thomas
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