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authorBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2012-05-02 10:14:55 -0700
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-05-13 23:20:00 -0500
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mtd: nand: add 'oob_required' argument to NAND {read,write}_page interfaces
New NAND controllers can perform read/write via HW engines which don't expose OOB data in their DMA mode. To reflect this, we should rework the nand_chip / nand_ecc_ctrl interfaces that assume that drivers will always read/write OOB data in the nand_chip.oob_poi buffer. A better interface includes a boolean argument that explicitly tells the callee when OOB data is requested by the calling layer (for reading/writing to/from nand_chip.oob_poi). This patch adds the 'oob_required' parameter to each relevant {read,write}_page interface; all 'oob_required' parameters are left unused for now. The next patch will set the parameter properly in the nand_base.c callers, and follow-up patches will make use of 'oob_required' in some of the callee functions. Note that currently, there is no harm in ignoring the 'oob_required' parameter and *always* utilizing nand_chip.oob_poi, but there can be performance/complexity/design benefits from avoiding filling oob_poi in the common case. I will try to implement this for some drivers which can be ported easily. Note: I couldn't compile-test all of these easily, as some had ARCH dependencies. [dwmw2: Merge later 1/0 vs. true/false cleanup] Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com> Acked-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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