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Re: [PATCH v3 16/52] mtd: nand: use mtd_set_ecclayout() where appropriate

From Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 16/52] mtd: nand: use mtd_set_ecclayout() where appropriate
Date 2016-03-05 10:00 +0100
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Hi Brian,

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 18:26:21 -0800
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 01:57:24AM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > Use the mtd_set_ecclayout() helper instead of directly assigning the
> > mtd->ecclayout field.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > index 17504f2..5093a3c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> > @@ -4288,7 +4288,7 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
> >  		ecc->write_oob_raw = ecc->write_oob;
> >  
> >  	/* propagate ecc info to mtd_info */
> > -	mtd->ecclayout = ecc->layout;
> > +	mtd_set_ecclayout(mtd, ecc->layout);
> 
> I'm having trouble applying this one. For the life of me, I can't figure
> out where you got this context from. This block only appears much later
> in nand_scan_tail()...
> 

Patch 7 has moved this section upper in the function to avoid problems
when calculating the number of available/free OOB bytes.

> Do you think you could post a git tree with your intended changes? I may
> just try to pull something in like that instead.

Yep, it's there [1]. Note that this branch contains the two fixes I
talked about with Harvey and Stephan. I also made a few changes to use
ecc->total instead of calculating (ecc->steps * ecc->bytes).

> 
> BTW, I'm not sure the OMAP refactorings are going to come in time, but I
> was planning to pull those directly from the TI folks (i.e., they won't
> be rebased on l2-mtd.git), since there's some intermingling of platform
> changes there. I think I can fix the conflicts fine, but FYI.

Okay, then I'll let you deal with those conflicts. I can check your
conflict resolution if you're unsure.

Thanks,

Boris


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Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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Re: [PATCH v3 16/52] mtd: nand: use mtd_set_ecclayout() where  appropriate Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> - 2016-03-05 03:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 16/52] mtd: nand: use mtd_set_ecclayout() where  appropriate Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2016-03-05 10:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 16/52] mtd: nand: use mtd_set_ecclayout() where  appropriate Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2016-03-05 10:10 +0100

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