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authorBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2010-09-20 08:57:12 +0200
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-10-25 00:37:27 +0200
commit0ceacf36e9c41859a6072342d27cf6e60776c523 (patch)
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parentmtd: nand: expand nand_ecc_layout, deprecate ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT (diff)
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mtd: edit comments on deprecation of ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT
There were some improvements and additions necessary in the comments explaining of the expansion of nand_ecclayout, the introduction of nand_ecclayout_user, and the deprecation of the ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT. Also, I found a better placement for the macro MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES; next to the definition of MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES in mtd-abi.h. The macro is really only important for the ioctl code (found in drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c) but since there are small edits being made to the user-space header, I figured this is a better location. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mtd/mtd.h8
-rw-r--r--include/mtd/mtd-abi.h11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
index 03a1e954c586..fe8d77ebec13 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
@@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ struct mtd_oob_ops {
#define MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES_LARGE 32
#define MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES_LARGE 448
-#define MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES_OLD 64 /* Previous maximum */
/*
- * Correct ECC layout control structure. This replaces old nand_ecclayout
- * (mtd-abi.h) that is exported via ECCGETLAYOUT ioctl. It should be expandable
- * in the future simply by the above macros.
+ * Internal ECC layout control structure. For historical reasons, there is a
+ * similar, smaller struct nand_ecclayout_user (in mtd-abi.h) that is retained
+ * for export to user-space via the ECCGETLAYOUT ioctl.
+ * nand_ecclayout should be expandable in the future simply by the above macros.
*/
struct nand_ecclayout {
__u32 eccbytes;
diff --git a/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h b/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h
index 5bce08384345..a57c4cb7d6b2 100644
--- a/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h
+++ b/include/mtd/mtd-abi.h
@@ -144,13 +144,18 @@ struct nand_oobfree {
};
#define MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES 8
+#define MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES 64
/*
- * ECC layout control structure. Exported to userspace for
- * diagnosis and to allow creation of raw images
+ * OBSOLETE: ECC layout control structure. Exported to user-space via ioctl
+ * ECCGETLAYOUT for backwards compatbility and should not be mistaken as a
+ * complete set of ECC information. The ioctl truncates the larger internal
+ * structure to retain binary compatibility with the static declaration of the
+ * ioctl. Note that the "MTD_MAX_..._ENTRIES" macros represent the max size of
+ * the user struct, not the MAX size of the internal struct nand_ecclayout.
*/
struct nand_ecclayout_user {
__u32 eccbytes;
- __u32 eccpos[64];
+ __u32 eccpos[MTD_MAX_ECCPOS_ENTRIES];
__u32 oobavail;
struct nand_oobfree oobfree[MTD_MAX_OOBFREE_ENTRIES];
};