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authorBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2012-05-11 13:30:35 -0700
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-07-06 18:17:02 +0100
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mtd: nand: gpmi: need to use {read,write}_oob_raw
This patch is simply an added warning in the comments. Ideally, this patch need not be merged, but rather, a developer will write a proper solution that can use the ecc.read_oob_raw and ecc.write_oob_raw interfaces. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
index a6cad5caba78..6574c6f51b8b 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c
@@ -1064,6 +1064,9 @@ exit_auxiliary:
* ECC-based or raw view of the page is implicit in which function it calls
* (there is a similar pair of ECC-based/raw functions for writing).
*
+ * FIXME: The following paragraph is incorrect, now that there exist
+ * ecc.read_oob_raw and ecc.write_oob_raw functions.
+ *
* Since MTD assumes the OOB is not covered by ECC, there is no pair of
* ECC-based/raw functions for reading or or writing the OOB. The fact that the
* caller wants an ECC-based or raw view of the page is not propagated down to