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authorJörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>2007-10-20 23:16:32 +0200
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2007-10-20 22:30:54 +0100
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[MTD] [NAND] Replace -1 with -EBADMSG in nand error correction code
Magic numerical values are just bad style. Particularly so when undocumented. Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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diff --git a/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c b/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c
index 5b0d8522b7ca..3ea2db94d5b0 100644
--- a/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c
+++ b/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(encode_rs8);
* The syndrome and parity uses a uint16_t data type to enable
* symbol size > 8. The calling code must take care of decoding of the
* syndrome result and the received parity before calling this code.
+ * Returns the number of corrected bits or -EBADMSG for uncorrectable errors.
*/
int decode_rs8(struct rs_control *rs, uint8_t *data, uint16_t *par, int len,
uint16_t *s, int no_eras, int *eras_pos, uint16_t invmsk,
@@ -363,6 +364,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(encode_rs16);
* @corr: buffer to store correction bitmask on eras_pos
*
* Each field in the data array contains up to symbol size bits of valid data.
+ * Returns the number of corrected bits or -EBADMSG for uncorrectable errors.
*/
int decode_rs16(struct rs_control *rs, uint16_t *data, uint16_t *par, int len,
uint16_t *s, int no_eras, int *eras_pos, uint16_t invmsk,