mtd: driver _read() returns max_bitflips; mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN
authorMike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:06:11 +0000 (12:06 -0700)
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Mon, 14 May 2012 04:14:23 +0000 (23:14 -0500)
commitedbc4540e02c201bdd4f4d498ebb6ed517fd36e2
tree403ee7318cb1218a224885d048781e35f2128a22
parente2788c98b98269a3131bffd2b57599280d7abd73
mtd: driver _read() returns max_bitflips; mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN

The drivers' _read() method, absent an error, returns a non-negative integer
indicating the maximum number of bit errors that were corrected in any one
region comprising an ecc step.  MTD returns -EUCLEAN if this is >=
bitflip_threshold, 0 otherwise.  If bitflip_threshold is zero, the comparison is
not made since these devices lack ECC and always return zero in the non-error
case (thanks Brian)¹.  Note that this is a subtle change to the driver
interface.

This and the preceding patches in this set were tested with ubi on top of the
nandsim and docg4 devices, running the ubi test io_basic from mtd-utils.

¹ http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-March/040468.html

Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Ivan Djelic <ivan.djelic@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
drivers/mtd/nand/alauda.c
drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
include/linux/mtd/nand.h