Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] mtd: nand: Qualcomm NAND controller driver

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

Hi Archit,

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:18:46 +0530
Archit Taneja <architt@codeaurora.org> wrote:

> 
> >
> > Note that you could put the oobfree area at the end of the OOB area,
> > since this 10-10-10-16-10 representation is already a virtual
> > representation of the OOB area (ECC bytes are actually interleaved with
> > in-band data on the flash).
> 
> But, when I read from the controller's internal buffer via DMA, I first
> get the oobfree area, and only then the last step's ECC bytes. So, the 
> content in chip->oob_poi is in the same order as mentioned
> above (10-10-10-16-10).
> 
> If the upper layers uses MTD_OPS_AUTO_OOB, and if I have a different
> layout as what it is in the oob_poi buffer, then it'll end up
> reading/writing the wrong bytes in nand_transfer_oob/nand_fill_oob.
> 
> Are you suggesting that I modify the contents of oob_poi by hand such
> that it has a cleaner 10-10-10-10-16 representation?

Hm, I thought you could just place the free oob bytes wherever you want
since there's only one oobfree region. AFAICS, it's just a matter of
passing ->oob_poi + 40 instead of passing ->oob_poi + 30 when preparing
the DMA descriptor (30 and 40 are just numbers for this specific use
case).
Anyway, I won't complain if you address all comments but this one.

Best Regards,

Boris


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