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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/9] mtd: nand: retrieve ECC requirements from Hynix READ ID byte 4
    Hello Brian,

    On 23/01/2014 02:49, Brian Norris wrote:
    > + Huang
    >
    > Hi Boris,
    >
    > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:21:56PM +0100, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
    >> The Hynix nand flashes store their ECC requirements in byte 4 of its id
    >> (returned on READ ID command).
    >>
    >> Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <b.brezillon@overkiz.com>
    > I haven't verified yet (perhaps Huang can confirm?), but this may be
    > similar to a patch Huang submitted recently. In his case, we found that
    > this table is actually quite unreliable and is likely hard to maintain.

    Indeed (as stated in this thread
    http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/50252).
    I'll remove this patch from the next version of this series and make use
    of the
    nand-ecc-strength /nand-ecc-size DT properties instead.

    Thanks.

    Best Regards,

    Boris
    >
    > Why do you need this ECC information, for my reference?
    >
    > Brian



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