From 0ceacf36e9c41859a6072342d27cf6e60776c523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:57:12 -0700
Subject: mtd: edit comments on deprecation of ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT
There were some improvements and additions necessary in the
comments explaining of the expansion of nand_ecclayout, the
introduction of nand_ecclayout_user, and the deprecation of the
ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT.
Also, I found a better placement for the macro MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES;
next to the definition of MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES in mtd-abi.h. The macro
is really only important for the ioctl code (found in drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c)
but since there are small edits being made to the user-space header, I
figured this is a better location.
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>
---
include/mtd/mtd-abi.h | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
(limited to 'include/mtd/mtd-abi.h')
diff --git a/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h b/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h
index 5bce08384345..a57c4cb7d6b2 100644
--- a/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h
+++ b/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h
@@ -144,13 +144,18 @@ struct nand_oobfree {
};
#define MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES 8
+#define MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES 64
/*
- * ECC layout control structure. Exported to userspace for
- * diagnosis and to allow creation of raw images
+ * OBSOLETE: ECC layout control structure. Exported to user-space via ioctl
+ * ECCGETLAYOUT for backwards compatbility and should not be mistaken as a
+ * complete set of ECC information. The ioctl truncates the larger internal
+ * structure to retain binary compatibility with the static declaration of the
+ * ioctl. Note that the "MTD_MAX_..._ENTRIES" macros represent the max size of
+ * the user struct, not the MAX size of the internal struct nand_ecclayout.
*/
struct nand_ecclayout_user {
__u32 eccbytes;
- __u32 eccpos[64];
+ __u32 eccpos[MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES];
__u32 oobavail;
struct nand_oobfree oobfree[MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES];
};
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