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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: "Hattink, Tjalling [FINT]" <T.Hattink@fugro.nl>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: Do not automatically set SUBPAGE_READ flag
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:53:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140224085333.GU17250@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C89EFD3CD56F64468D3D206D683A8D2203041AF3@ldam-msx2.fugro-nl.local>

Hi Tjalling,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:23:07PM +0100, Hattink, Tjalling [FINT] wrote:
> The default nand_read_subpage implementation returns -ENOSUPP, so if you
> use a large nand chip without a specific read_subpage implementation the
> read operations will always fail.
> 
> This functionaliy can be restored when a proper nand_read_subpage is
> implemented for the default driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tjalling Hattink <t.hattink@fugro.nl>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> index 54d8ba3..bfd695b 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> @@ -3562,10 +3562,6 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
>         /* Invalidate the pagebuffer reference */
>         chip->pagebuf = -1;
>  
> -       /* Large page NAND with SOFT_ECC should support subpage reads */
> -       if ((chip->ecc.mode == NAND_ECC_SOFT) && (chip->page_shift > 9))
> -               chip->options |= NAND_SUBPAGE_READ;
> -

Only barebox nand_read_subpage returns -ENOSUPP. The kernel has a
default implementation. Wouldn't it be possible (and better) to just
remove the return -ENOSUPP from nand_read_subpage and use the code which
we already have?

Sascha


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-24  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-21 15:23 Hattink, Tjalling [FINT]
2014-02-24  8:53 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2014-02-24  9:20   ` Hattink, Tjalling [FINT]
2014-02-24  9:25     ` Sascha Hauer

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