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| author | Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> | 2010-08-24 18:12:00 -0700 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2010-10-24 23:37:24 +0100 |
| commit | cc26c3cd3d1cf40a07f2b19ac4c53d517bee52a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 664c422944f780a1cc99f872714eeb339efef7ef /drivers/mtd/nand | |
| parent | f4a2da0cd522a3b805ff2386c14912945bf990c7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cc26c3cd3d1cf40a07f2b19ac4c53d517bee52a5.tar.bz2 | |
mtd: nand: expand nand_ecc_layout, deprecate ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT
struct nand_ecclayout is too small for many new chips; OOB regions can be as
large as 448 bytes and may increase more in the future. Thus, copying that
struct to user-space with the ECCGETLAYOUT ioctl is not a good idea; the ioctl
would have to be updated every time there's a change to the current largest
size.
Instead, the old nand_ecclayout is renamed to nand_ecclayout_user and a
new struct nand_ecclayout is created that can accomodate larger sizes and
expand without affecting the user-space. struct nand_ecclayout can still
be used in board drivers without modification -- at least for now.
A new function is provided to convert from the new to the old in order to
allow the deprecated ioctl to continue to work with truncated data. Perhaps
the ioctl, the conversion process, and the struct nand_ecclayout_user can be
removed altogether in the future.
Note: There are comments in nand/davinci_nand.c::nand_davinci_probe()
regarding this issue; this driver (and maybe others) can be updated to
account for extra space. All kernel drivers can use the expanded
nand_ecclayout as a drop-in replacement and ignore its benefits.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/nand')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c index 2ac7367afe77..70698e86e437 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c @@ -749,6 +749,9 @@ static int __init nand_davinci_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) * breaks userspace ioctl interface with mtd-utils. Once we * resolve this issue, NAND_ECC_HW_OOB_FIRST mode can be used * for the 4KiB page chips. + * + * TODO: Note that nand_ecclayout has now been expanded and can + * hold plenty of OOB entries. */ dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "no 4-bit ECC support yet " "for 4KiB-page NAND\n"); |