2008-10-09 22:58:04

by Kyungmin Park

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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] [PATCH] [MTD] Flex-OneNAND MTD Driver available.

Hi,
I want to merge it if there are no objection.
David, please commit it at MTD tree.
Thank you,Kyungmin Park.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:28 PM, apgmoorthy <[email protected]> wrote:>> Hi David,>> Please do comment on this patch.>> "Not to expose whole OOB" suggestion by Kyungmin should be fine , but> looking for your suggestion.>> With Regards> Gangheyamoorthy.A.P>> -----Original Message-----> From: Artem Bityutskiy [mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:50 PM> To: Amit Kumar Sharma> Cc: Kyungmin Park; apgmoorthy; [email protected]; Kyungmin Park;> lkml; David Woodhouse> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] [PATCH] [MTD] Flex-OneNAND MTD Driver available.>>> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:31 +0530, Amit Kumar Sharma wrote:>> Hi Artem>>>> we have following erro message if we maintain 64 bytes>> eccpos.>>>> /flash_eraseall -j /dev/mtd4>> ./flash_eraseall: /dev/mtd4: unable to get NAND oobinfo>>>> ./nandwrite -j /dev/mtd2 /jffs2.img>> MEMSETOOBSEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device>>>> but i think as OneNAND has hw ecc controller so Jffs2 will>> not face any problem>> still i think mtd should consider for 128 bytes eccpos for>> 4K page size.>> Well, anyway, in Linux ABI is a holy cow, you cannot change it.> That is a tough rule. Old user-space binaries have to always> works.>> Thus you may do one of:> 1. Invent a new ioctl for 4KiB page NANDs> 2. Add sysfs support> 3. Just do not expose whole OOB as Kyungmin suggested>> But I think assume dwmw2 would need to comment on this and> tell which approach would agree on.>> --> Best regards,> Artem Bityutskiy (???????? ??ԣ?)>>????{.n?+???????+%?????ݶ??w??{.n?+????{??G?????{ay?ʇڙ?,j??f???h?????????z_??(?階?ݢj"???m??????G????????????&???~???iO???z??v?^?m???? ????????I?