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SubjectRe: [RESEND PATCH 0/3] mtd: nand: standardize ECC maximization
On Wed,  8 Jun 2016 17:04:21 +0200
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the noise, but I forgot to add DT maintainers in Cc.
>
> This series aims at standardizing a feature already supported by
> some NAND controller drivers: setting the maximum ECC strength
> based on the OOB area size instead of using the ECC strength/step_size
> information retrieved from the DT or NAND detection code.
>
> This is particularly useful when the NAND device is used in by a
> FS/wear-leveling layer that is not using the OOB area at all (this is
> the case of UBI).
>
> Note that drivers already implementing this kind of logic are not
> converted to the new approach (because of backward compatibility
> concern), but new drivers or drivers that do not already implement
> this 'ECC maximization' logic are encouraged to do it.

Applied.

>
> Regards,
>
> Boris
>
> Boris Brezillon (3):
> mtd: nand: Add an option to maximize the ECC strength
> mtd: nand: Support maximizing ECC when using software BCH
> mtd: nand: sunxi: Support ECC maximization
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/nand.txt | 9 ++++++++
> drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/mtd/nand.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 62 insertions(+)
>

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