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[3/3] mtd: brcmnand: fix check for Hamming algorithm

Message ID 1455300685-27009-3-git-send-email-zajec5@gmail.com
State Superseded
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Rafał Miłecki Feb. 12, 2016, 6:11 p.m. UTC
So far we were treating ECC strength 1 as Hamming algorithm. It didn't
supporting some less common devices with BCH-1 (e.g. D-Link DIR-885L).

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Kamal Dasu Feb. 15, 2016, 9:30 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
> So far we were treating ECC strength 1 as Hamming algorithm. It didn't
> supporting some less common devices with BCH-1 (e.g. D-Link DIR-885L).
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@gmail.com>

Thanks Rafal
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> index 844fc07..b8055da 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> @@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@ static int brcmnand_setup_dev(struct brcmnand_host *host)
>
>         switch (chip->ecc.size) {
>         case 512:
> -               if (chip->ecc.strength == 1) /* Hamming */
> +               if (chip->ecc.algo == NAND_ECC_HAMMING)
>                         cfg->ecc_level = 15;
>                 else
>                         cfg->ecc_level = chip->ecc.strength;
> --
> 1.8.4.5
>
Brian Norris April 1, 2016, 4:07 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 07:11:25PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> So far we were treating ECC strength 1 as Hamming algorithm. It didn't
> supporting some less common devices with BCH-1 (e.g. D-Link DIR-885L).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> index 844fc07..b8055da 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
> @@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@ static int brcmnand_setup_dev(struct brcmnand_host *host)
>  
>  	switch (chip->ecc.size) {
>  	case 512:
> -		if (chip->ecc.strength == 1) /* Hamming */
> +		if (chip->ecc.algo == NAND_ECC_HAMMING)

It's probably best we do a little more than this. Right now, this allows
someone to specify:

	nand-ecc-strength = <20>;
	nand-ecc-stepsize = <512>;
	nand-ecc-algo = "hamming";
	nand-ecc-mode = "hw";

And they'll end up with 1-bit hamming ECC, except nand_base will still
think we have 20-bit correction. I think we need to add a check in this
driver to be sure we haven't selected >1-bit correction with hamming
ECC.

Brian

>  			cfg->ecc_level = 15;
>  		else
>  			cfg->ecc_level = chip->ecc.strength;
> -- 
> 1.8.4.5
>
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diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
index 844fc07..b8055da 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/brcmnand/brcmnand.c
@@ -1842,7 +1842,7 @@  static int brcmnand_setup_dev(struct brcmnand_host *host)
 
 	switch (chip->ecc.size) {
 	case 512:
-		if (chip->ecc.strength == 1) /* Hamming */
+		if (chip->ecc.algo == NAND_ECC_HAMMING)
 			cfg->ecc_level = 15;
 		else
 			cfg->ecc_level = chip->ecc.strength;