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authorBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2010-08-24 18:12:00 -0700
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-10-24 23:37:24 +0100
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mtd: nand: expand nand_ecc_layout, deprecate ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT
struct nand_ecclayout is too small for many new chips; OOB regions can be as large as 448 bytes and may increase more in the future. Thus, copying that struct to user-space with the ECCGETLAYOUT ioctl is not a good idea; the ioctl would have to be updated every time there's a change to the current largest size. Instead, the old nand_ecclayout is renamed to nand_ecclayout_user and a new struct nand_ecclayout is created that can accomodate larger sizes and expand without affecting the user-space. struct nand_ecclayout can still be used in board drivers without modification -- at least for now. A new function is provided to convert from the new to the old in order to allow the deprecated ioctl to continue to work with truncated data. Perhaps the ioctl, the conversion process, and the struct nand_ecclayout_user can be removed altogether in the future. Note: There are comments in nand/davinci_nand.c::nand_davinci_probe() regarding this issue; this driver (and maybe others) can be updated to account for extra space. All kernel drivers can use the expanded nand_ecclayout as a drop-in replacement and ignore its benefits. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/mtd/mtd-user.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/mtd/mtd-user.h b/include/mtd/mtd-user.h
index aa3c2f86a913..83327c808c86 100644
--- a/include/mtd/mtd-user.h
+++ b/include/mtd/mtd-user.h
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ typedef struct mtd_info_user mtd_info_t;
typedef struct erase_info_user erase_info_t;
typedef struct region_info_user region_info_t;
typedef struct nand_oobinfo nand_oobinfo_t;
-typedef struct nand_ecclayout nand_ecclayout_t;
+typedef struct nand_ecclayout_user nand_ecclayout_t;
#endif /* __MTD_USER_H__ */