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authorBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>2016-02-04 10:16:18 +0100
committerBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>2016-05-05 23:51:51 +0200
commitaab616e31d1c7ec3726f7f5cbdaaec98759ebe93 (patch)
tree4e05a14a567d7db3660efcb4e08f550f24f52a2b /drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
parent7f2b092c9eeda055ae60af194a8edacaea5f7a10 (diff)
downloadlinux-aab616e31d1c7ec3726f7f5cbdaaec98759ebe93.tar.bz2
mtd: kill the nand_ecclayout struct
Now that all MTD drivers have moved to the mtd_ooblayout_ops model we can safely remove the struct nand_ecclayout definition, and all the remaining places where it was still used. Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
index 3fad2c7425b0..2a47a3f0e730 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
@@ -465,12 +465,12 @@ static int mtdchar_readoob(struct file *file, struct mtd_info *mtd,
}
/*
- * Copies (and truncates, if necessary) data from the larger struct,
- * nand_ecclayout, to the smaller, deprecated layout struct,
- * nand_ecclayout_user. This is necessary only to support the deprecated
- * API ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT while allowing all new functionality to use
- * nand_ecclayout flexibly (i.e. the struct may change size in new
- * releases without requiring major rewrites).
+ * Copies (and truncates, if necessary) OOB layout information to the
+ * deprecated layout struct, nand_ecclayout_user. This is necessary only to
+ * support the deprecated API ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT while allowing all new
+ * functionality to use mtd_ooblayout_ops flexibly (i.e. mtd_ooblayout_ops
+ * can describe any kind of OOB layout with almost zero overhead from a
+ * memory usage point of view).
*/
static int shrink_ecclayout(struct mtd_info *mtd,
struct nand_ecclayout_user *to)