Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] mtd: nand: retrieve ECC requirements from HynixREAD ID byte 4

[Boris BREZILLON]

Hello Brian,

On 23/01/2014 02:49, Brian Norris wrote:
> + Huang
>
> Hi Boris,
>
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:21:56PM +0100, Boris BREZILLON wrote:
> > The Hynix nand flashes store their ECC requirements in byte 4 of its id
> > (returned on READ ID command).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <b.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> I haven't verified yet (perhaps Huang can confirm?), but this may be
> similar to a patch Huang submitted recently. In his case, we found that
> this table is actually quite unreliable and is likely hard to maintain.

Indeed (as stated in this thread 
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/50252).
I'll remove this patch from the next version of this series and make use 
of the
nand-ecc-strength /nand-ecc-size DT properties instead.

Thanks.

Best Regards,

Boris
> Why do you need this ECC information, for my reference?
>
> Brian

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