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authorPaul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>2021-10-16 14:22:26 +0100
committerMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>2021-11-19 19:43:07 +0100
commit0697f8441faad552fbeb02d74454b5e7bcc956a2 (patch)
treef29e1886df6ea73d91b99e91a2096eb6ad164810 /drivers/mtd
parent9c9d709965385de5a99f84b14bd5860e1541729e (diff)
mtd: rawnand: davinci: Rewrite function description
The original comment that describes the function nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first() is very obscure and it is hard to understand what it is for. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.2 Fixes: a0ac778eb82c ("mtd: rawnand: ingenic: Add support for the JZ4740") Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20211016132228.40254-3-paul@crapouillou.net
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
index 2e6a0c1671be..fe2511cdcae3 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
@@ -372,17 +372,15 @@ correct:
}
/**
- * nand_read_page_hwecc_oob_first - hw ecc, read oob first
+ * nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first - Hardware ECC page read with ECC
+ * data read from OOB area
* @chip: nand chip info structure
* @buf: buffer to store read data
* @oob_required: caller requires OOB data read to chip->oob_poi
* @page: page number to read
*
- * Hardware ECC for large page chips, require OOB to be read first. For this
- * ECC mode, the write_page method is re-used from ECC_HW. These methods
- * read/write ECC from the OOB area, unlike the ECC_HW_SYNDROME support with
- * multiple ECC steps, follows the "infix ECC" scheme and reads/writes ECC from
- * the data area, by overwriting the NAND manufacturer bad block markings.
+ * Hardware ECC for large page chips, which requires the ECC data to be
+ * extracted from the OOB before the actual data is read.
*/
static int nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first(struct nand_chip *chip,
uint8_t *buf,