Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: xway: No hardcoded ECC engine, use device tree setting

From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: Kestrel seventyfour <kestrelseventyfour@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: xway: No hardcoded ECC engine, use device tree setting
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:22:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210824192203.076df55e@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9cyGTKFcMuxePo2SgxkBe_cWvP5nZ_SDcnuUtwaE5o9oVq3g@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

Kestrel seventyfour <kestrelseventyfour@gmail.com> wrote on Tue, 24 Aug
2021 09:15:49 +0200:

> Hi Miquèl,
> 
> Am Mo., 23. Aug. 2021 um 17:24 Uhr schrieb Miquel Raynal
> <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>:
> >
> > Hi Kestrel,
> >
> > Kestrel seventyfour <kestrelseventyfour@gmail.com> wrote on Mon, 23 Aug
> > 2021 13:19:43 +0200:
> >  
> > > Hi Miquèl,
> > >
> > > Am Do., 19. Aug. 2021 um 10:03 Uhr schrieb Miquel Raynal
> > > <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>:  
> ...
> > >
> > > thank you for your response.
> > > If I remove the nand-ecc-xxx properties in the device tree, the device with
> > > the Toshiba NAND chip is working. However, the device with the Micron
> > > NAND fails with NO ECC functions supplied; hardware ECC not possible,
> > > seems to be at line 5367 or equivalent.
> > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c#L5367
> > >
> > > It looks like the micron nand driver supports on die only if its
> > > specified int the
> > > Device tree:
> > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_micron.c#L511
> > > The Micron NAND driver probably needs to set the ECC type to ON DIE if the
> > > variable ondie contains the supported attribute?!  
> >
> > You're right but I don't see any easy upstream-able solution here.
> > Changing the behavior in the Xway driver would certainly break users,
> > changing the behavior in the Micron driver would certainly break even
> > more users. The root cause being an absence of proper description (the
> > integration changed). Honestly I feel stuck, maybe you can try to
> > register your device, if it fails, change the integration in the driver
> > (to an ondie ecc engine) then retry?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Miquèl  
> 
> Do you think adding something like below at the following location
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/xway_nand.c#L223
> would be upstreamable (with or without device tree property?)?
> 
>         err = nand_scan(&data->chip, 1);
>         if (err /* && of_property_read_bool(np, "lantiq,retry-on-die") */) {
>                 data->chip.ecc.engine_type = NAND_ECC_ENGINE_TYPE_ON_DIE;
>                 err = nand_scan(&data->chip, 1);
>                 if (err) return err;
>         }
> 
> It still throws the kernel warning on first try, but the second try then works.

Can you please remind me what is xway/lantiq/your setup/how public it
is/who's using this driver?

Thanks,
Miquèl

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