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[01/02] mtdswap: kill strip error handling option

Message ID 20110314015056.GA6819@darkstar
State New, archived
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Yang Ruirui March 14, 2011, 1:50 a.m. UTC
From: Yang Ruirui<ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com>

As Artem Bityutskiy's suggestion, The strict erase error handling option
does not make much sense.

Here kill the option, and still keep the retry times as before.

Signed-off-by: Yang Ruirui<ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/Kconfig   |    8 --------
 drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c |    8 +-------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)

Comments

Artem Bityutskiy March 14, 2011, 8:39 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 09:50 +0800, Yang Ruirui wrote:
> From: Yang Ruirui<ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com>
> 
> As Artem Bityutskiy's suggestion, The strict erase error handling option
> does not make much sense.

Well, I does make sense, but we just have no prove it is any useful,
this is why I suggested to kill it.

> 
> Here kill the option, and still keep the retry times as before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Ruirui<ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/Kconfig   |    8 --------
>  drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c |    8 +-------
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)

Thank, I've amended the commit message and pushed to my l2-mtd-2.6.git
tree.

Artem.
Yang Ruirui March 14, 2011, 8:58 a.m. UTC | #2
On 03/14/2011 04:39 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 09:50 +0800, Yang Ruirui wrote:
>> From: Yang Ruirui<ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com>
>>
>> As Artem Bityutskiy's suggestion, The strict erase error handling option
>> does not make much sense.
>
> Well, I does make sense, but we just have no prove it is any useful,
> this is why I suggested to kill it.
>
>>
>> Here kill the option, and still keep the retry times as before.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Ruirui<ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/mtd/Kconfig   |    8 --------
>>   drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c |    8 +-------
>>   2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> Thank, I've amended the commit message and pushed to my l2-mtd-2.6.git
> tree.

Thanks about that.

>
> Artem.
>
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Patch

--- mtd-2.6-fc2ff59.orig/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c	2011-03-12 01:49:31.000000000 +0800
+++ mtd-2.6-fc2ff59/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c	2011-03-14 09:36:09.283329099 +0800
@@ -156,12 +156,6 @@  struct mtdswap_oobdata {
 #define MTDSWAP_ERASE_RETRIES	3 /* Before marking erase block bad */
 #define MTDSWAP_IO_RETRIES	3
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MTD_SWAP_STRICT
-#define MTDSWAP_STRICT		1
-#else
-#define MTDSWAP_STRICT		0
-#endif
-
 enum {
 	MTDSWAP_SCANNED_CLEAN,
 	MTDSWAP_SCANNED_DIRTY,
@@ -575,7 +569,7 @@  retry:
 
 	ret = mtd->erase(mtd, &erase);
 	if (ret) {
-		if (retries++ < MTDSWAP_ERASE_RETRIES && !MTDSWAP_STRICT) {
+		if (retries++ < MTDSWAP_ERASE_RETRIES) {
 			dev_warn(d->dev,
 				"erase of erase block %#llx on %s failed",
 				erase.addr, mtd->name);
--- mtd-2.6-fc2ff59.orig/drivers/mtd/Kconfig	2011-03-12 01:49:31.000000000 +0800
+++ mtd-2.6-fc2ff59/drivers/mtd/Kconfig	2011-03-14 09:36:45.269995898 +0800
@@ -335,14 +335,6 @@  config MTD_SWAP
 	  The driver provides wear leveling by storing erase counter into the
 	  OOB.
 
-config MTD_SWAP_STRICT
-       bool "Strict erase error handling"
-       depends on MTD_SWAP
-       help
-	 Enables strict tolerance on failed erasures, marking erase blocks bad
-	 right after the first failed operation. With non-strict mode the
-	 erase operation is retried.
-
 source "drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig"