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authorMike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>2012-04-25 23:06:05 +0400
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-05-14 08:09:58 +0400
commit86c2072be6f3c2150cc35f00233f2c31bdba2745 (patch)
tree56cfadbee0ea04a9436009743d5954ca447ebd96 /include/linux/mtd
parent09cbe581e346229e33c48da00439419ff2fe6af7 (diff)
downloadlinux-86c2072be6f3c2150cc35f00233f2c31bdba2745.tar.xz
mtd: ecc_strength is at ecc step granularity
ecc_strength element of mtd_info will be the strength of one ecc step, not of the entire writesize, as was previously planned. This is the appropriate way because, as was pointed out¹, bit errors in excess of the strength of one step can cause a hard error if they all occur within the same ecc region. ¹ http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-March/040313.html Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mtd')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mtd/mtd.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
index cf5ea8cdcf8e..cd0119d19cd9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ struct mtd_info {
/* ECC layout structure pointer - read only! */
struct nand_ecclayout *ecclayout;
- /* max number of correctible bit errors per writesize */
+ /* max number of correctible bit errors per ecc step */
unsigned int ecc_strength;
/* Data for variable erase regions. If numeraseregions is zero,