Re: [PATCH] mtd: brcmnand: Workaround false ECC uncorrectable errors

[Brian Norris]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:54:15PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> BTW, I think Kamal had code to handle protecting bitflips in erased
> pages code in the Broadcom STB Linux BSP. Perhaps he can port that to
> upstream with nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk()? IIUC, that would probably
> handle your case too, Simon, although it wouldn't be optimal for an
> all-0xff check (i.e., bitflip_threshold == 0).

I think this was for BCH only, actually. Hamming wasn't used as much on
STB. So the above would only help part of this patch. I'm less sure of
the behavior for the Hamming engine.

Brian
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