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Date:   Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:12:38 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nand: brcmnand: fix OOB R/W with Hamming ECC
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Hi Álvaro,

Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari@gmail.com> wrote on Thu, 25 Feb 2021
08:54:09 +0100:

> Hi Miquel,
> 
> > El 25 feb 2021, a las 8:48, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> escribió:
> > 
> > Hi Álvaro,
> > 
> > Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2021
> > 13:01:13 -0800:
> >   
> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:02 AM Álvaro Fernández Rojas
> >> <noltari@gmail.com> wrote:  
> >>> Fixes: 27c5b17cd1b1 ("mtd: nand: add NAND driver "library" for Broadcom STB NAND controller")    
> >> 
> >> FWIW, I could believe this was broken. We weren't testing Hamming ECC
> >> (nor JFFS2) at the time, so it could easily have obvious bugs like
> >> this.  
> > 
> > Right, you should probably limit the backport to the time when raw
> > accessors got introduced/fixed.  
> 
> What do you mean?
> Those accessors have been there since the first commit (27c5b17cd1b10564fa36f8f51e4b4b41436ecc32):
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/27c5b17cd1b10564fa36f8f51e4b4b41436ecc32/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c#L1896-L1899

I misunderstood Brian's answer. This commit is not that old and looks
legit.