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Author SHA1 Message Date
Boris BREZILLON 6e9411923b mtd: nand: return consistent error codes in ecc.correct() implementations
The error code returned by the ecc.correct() are not consistent over the
all implementations.

Document the expected behavior in include/linux/mtd/nand.h and fix
offending implementations.

[Brian: this looks like a bugfix for the ECC reporting in the bf5xx_nand
driver, but we haven't seen any testing results for it]

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Tested-by: Franklin S Cooper Jr. <fcooper@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
2016-01-06 18:45:46 -08:00
Ivan Djelic 193bd40026 mtd: nand: add software BCH ECC support
This patch adds software BCH ECC support to mtd, in order to handle recent
NAND device ecc requirements (4 bits or more).

It does so by adding a new ecc mode (NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH) for use by board
drivers, and a new Kconfig option to enable BCH support. It relies on the
generic BCH library introduced in a previous patch.

When a board driver uses mode NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH, it should also set fields
chip->ecc.size and chip->ecc.bytes to select BCH ecc data size and required
error correction capability. See nand_bch_init() documentation for details.

It has been tested on the following platforms using mtd-utils, UBI and
UBIFS: x86 (with nandsim), arm926ejs.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-03-11 17:49:08 +00:00