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authorBoris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>2015-12-30 20:32:03 +0100
committerBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2016-01-06 18:45:46 -0800
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mtd: nand: return consistent error codes in ecc.correct() implementations
The error code returned by the ecc.correct() are not consistent over the all implementations. Document the expected behavior in include/linux/mtd/nand.h and fix offending implementations. [Brian: this looks like a bugfix for the ECC reporting in the bf5xx_nand driver, but we haven't seen any testing results for it] Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: Franklin S Cooper Jr. <fcooper@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mtd')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mtd/nand.h8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mtd/nand_bch.h2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
index 3e92be1d2d43..518958115182 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
@@ -456,7 +456,13 @@ struct nand_hw_control {
* @hwctl: function to control hardware ECC generator. Must only
* be provided if an hardware ECC is available
* @calculate: function for ECC calculation or readback from ECC hardware
- * @correct: function for ECC correction, matching to ECC generator (sw/hw)
+ * @correct: function for ECC correction, matching to ECC generator (sw/hw).
+ * Should return a positive number representing the number of
+ * corrected bitflips, -EBADMSG if the number of bitflips exceed
+ * ECC strength, or any other error code if the error is not
+ * directly related to correction.
+ * If -EBADMSG is returned the input buffers should be left
+ * untouched.
* @read_page_raw: function to read a raw page without ECC. This function
* should hide the specific layout used by the ECC
* controller and always return contiguous in-band and
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/nand_bch.h b/include/linux/mtd/nand_bch.h
index 74acf5367556..fb0bc3420a10 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/nand_bch.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand_bch.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static inline int
nand_bch_correct_data(struct mtd_info *mtd, unsigned char *buf,
unsigned char *read_ecc, unsigned char *calc_ecc)
{
- return -1;
+ return -ENOTSUPP;
}
static inline struct nand_bch_control *
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