Re: [PATCH v4 03/12] dt-bindings: mtd: brcmnand: Add ecc strap property

[Conor Dooley]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 04:28:24PM -0800, William Zhang wrote:
> Add brcm,nand-ecc-use-strap to get ecc and spare area size settings from
> board boot strap for broadband board designs because they do not specify
> ecc setting in dts but rather using the strap setting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William Zhang <william.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Move ecc strap property to this separate patch and remove some
> non-binding related text from the description
> 
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/brcm,brcmnand.yaml | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/brcm,brcmnand.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/brcm,brcmnand.yaml
> index d0168d55c73e..2599d902ec3a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/brcm,brcmnand.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/brcm,brcmnand.yaml
> @@ -147,6 +147,14 @@ patternProperties:
>            layout.
>          $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
>  
> +      brcm,nand-ecc-use-strap:
> +        description:
> +          This flag indicates the ecc strength and spare area size should
> +          be retrieved from the SoC NAND boot strap setting instead of
> +          nand-ecc-strength and brcm,nand-oob-sector-size or auto detection.

I'm still on the fence about this being overly prescriptive about the
operating systems behaviour. I think it would be good to say why the
strap values are better than those explicitly provided in DT rather than
just saying "these strap values should be used".

> +          This is commonly used by the BCMBCA SoC board design.
> +        $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
> +
>      unevaluatedProperties: false
>  
>  allOf:
> -- 
> 2.37.3
>

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