From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-gy0-f177.google.com ([209.85.160.177]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1RbUiD-0000ok-TG for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:08:22 +0000 Received: by ghrr15 with SMTP id r15so308222ghr.36 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:08:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1324030184.15774.11.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MTD: modify mtd api to return bitflip info on read operations From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Mike Dunn Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:09:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4EE90B28.7030708@newsguy.com> References: <1322943640-11728-1-git-send-email-mikedunn@newsguy.com> <4EDB3295.6040201@bitbox.co.uk> <4EDB7B1D.60603@newsguy.com> <1323009827.9400.75.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> <4EDB89E9.6070306@newsguy.com> <1323065234.2316.2.camel@koala> <4EDCF840.7050107@newsguy.com> <4EDCFAAC.90709@bitbox.co.uk> <4EDD142B.6090303@newsguy.com> <87hb1de5b6.fsf@free.fr> <4EDECC7A.1080202@newsguy.com> <4EDFB142.6050208@newsguy.com> <1323694138.24509.21.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> <4EE90B28.7030708@newsguy.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YEv3GBcXPBzdWyVc0mpo" Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Peter Horton , Robert Jarzmik , Ricard Wanderlof , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --=-YEv3GBcXPBzdWyVc0mpo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 12:46 -0800, Mike Dunn wrote: > Here's a proposed patch set: >=20 > 1. mtd api changed so that read() and read_oob() return bitflip info (LAR= GE, > essentially the previous patch) > 2. Unpartitioned devices go through the partitioning code (small patch) > 3. Add ecc_strength to struct mtd_info, backport to drivers (moderate pat= ch) > 4. Implement functionality to intelligently decide whether to return -EUC= LEAN or > 0; add sysfs controls (moderate patch) Sounds good. Send patches :) You could already have done step 1 at least :-) Remember, you have less and less time to get into 3.3, let's make sure at least the big step 1 gets there and gets tested. --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy --=-YEv3GBcXPBzdWyVc0mpo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJO6xjoAAoJECmIfjd9wqK05C0QALnSN0fYxvJs7reMYqglUiBs p3KuY/Vd1gpH0RIwlvWUAaC0OrdKW+vTjxp1V5gq0dAcRCuBsG//42BIJRqJ5oTY f1pBmgoCe2fhWZVv0wBXRtdhUVLjVDmsVrFyMzGxj1MF0fAol+je3AFm4ccshazr lgekZuwqy6FMqjoZXxULzAM+kojQTLohP9VBFG2fZOa7Re8so723LfVC33YNfwd9 p7QADcnZ5h0OcyuvqWpmjx2vz8AK96M08vOaYcvjyiwgPFLZECQItm2kTXkfq36G jNNXbD2EkuG9SJSXpat1pO+Viwf8KMYECd0MyrAwiLdAPBiE8XWIPNYOZlSYeYBo T9yXpuUx02FD3fSLrWBaDnCC00dsclVlysc6pGV3+WLXWoqhwWmZlMQ6fD5EK5KP s/W8CShxyf1W7UnaPGxSR/mQkgOGJxuZS5o6wlWh/0qA4QodvEzStc9BLfEO3Yg0 cGjVG7GOZD/DPiD2dQy494qzLjaCNZxvNdGvvI2G+GZu4t1eyMGwbuywN5ySETK6 JP5t0GKVGgETejQdJuZUBFxRk1YnLw0DplktW5PXUqolVN3kllmb0XtYAXAQVMVn RHHP5r5rH3ygibgrvz/vIFmAqK8LR9coo4SfaL8i2KeRFKT/yzPDxCLoD/jgea9b tpBhBB+GZYVIYcYb1iSx =H3Az -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YEv3GBcXPBzdWyVc0mpo--