Re: [PATCH v3 13/37] mtd: nand: denali: avoid hard-coding ecc.strength and ecc.bytes

From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Fri Mar 31 2017 - 05:09:48 EST


On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:45:59 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali_dt.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali_dt.c
> index 1681a30..c3bc333 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali_dt.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali_dt.c
> @@ -31,10 +31,12 @@ struct denali_dt {
>
> struct denali_dt_data {
> unsigned int revision;
> + unsigned long ecc_strength_avail;

Shouldn't you directly make sure that your driver will support
strengths > BITS_PER_LONG?
I would store the supported strength in a table to make it more
future-proof:

int *ecc_strength_avail;
int num_ecc_strengths;


> unsigned int caps;
> };
>