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<title>mtd: edit comments on deprecation of ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT</title>
<updated>2010-10-24T22:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Norris</name>
<email>computersforpeace@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2010-09-20T06:57:12+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<title>mtd: nand: expand nand_ecc_layout, deprecate ioctl ECCGETLAYOUT</title>
<updated>2010-10-24T22:37:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Norris</name>
<email>computersforpeace@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-25T01:12:00+00:00</published>
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struct nand_ecclayout is too small for many new chips; OOB regions can be as
large as 448 bytes and may increase more in the future. Thus, copying that
struct to user-space with the ECCGETLAYOUT ioctl is not a good idea; the ioctl
would have to be updated every time there's a change to the current largest
size.

Instead, the old nand_ecclayout is renamed to nand_ecclayout_user and a
new struct nand_ecclayout is created that can accomodate larger sizes and
expand without affecting the user-space. struct nand_ecclayout can still
be used in board drivers without modification -- at least for now.

A new function is provided to convert from the new to the old in order to
allow the deprecated ioctl to continue to work with truncated data. Perhaps
the ioctl, the conversion process, and the struct nand_ecclayout_user can be
removed altogether in the future.

Note: There are comments in nand/davinci_nand.c::nand_davinci_probe()
regarding this issue; this driver (and maybe others) can be updated to
account for extra space. All kernel drivers can use the expanded
nand_ecclayout as a drop-in replacement and ignore its benefits.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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struct nand_ecclayout is too small for many new chips; OOB regions can be as
large as 448 bytes and may increase more in the future. Thus, copying that
struct to user-space with the ECCGETLAYOUT ioctl is not a good idea; the ioctl
would have to be updated every time there's a change to the current largest
size.

Instead, the old nand_ecclayout is renamed to nand_ecclayout_user and a
new struct nand_ecclayout is created that can accomodate larger sizes and
expand without affecting the user-space. struct nand_ecclayout can still
be used in board drivers without modification -- at least for now.

A new function is provided to convert from the new to the old in order to
allow the deprecated ioctl to continue to work with truncated data. Perhaps
the ioctl, the conversion process, and the struct nand_ecclayout_user can be
removed altogether in the future.

Note: There are comments in nand/davinci_nand.c::nand_davinci_probe()
regarding this issue; this driver (and maybe others) can be updated to
account for extra space. All kernel drivers can use the expanded
nand_ecclayout as a drop-in replacement and ignore its benefits.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: Remove obsolete &lt;mtd/compatmac.h&gt; include</title>
<updated>2010-08-08T20:19:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>David.Woodhouse@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-08T20:19:42+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: Update copyright notices</title>
<updated>2010-08-08T19:58:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>David.Woodhouse@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-08T19:58:20+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: add an ioctl to query the lock status of a flash sector</title>
<updated>2010-08-02T08:03:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Cochran</name>
<email>richardcochran@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-14T16:10:33+00:00</published>
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This patchs adds a way for user space programs to find out whether a
flash sector is locked. An optional driver method in the mtd_info struct
provides the information.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richard.cochran@omicron.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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This patchs adds a way for user space programs to find out whether a
flash sector is locked. An optional driver method in the mtd_info struct
provides the information.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richard.cochran@omicron.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: nand: make reads using MTD_OOB_RAW affect only ECC validation</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T18:00:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Levitsky</name>
<email>maximlevitsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-22T18:39:37+00:00</published>
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This changes the behavier of MTD_OOB_RAW. It used to read both OOB and 
data to the data buffer, however you would still need to specify the 
dummy oob buffer.

This is only used in one place, but makes it hard to read data+oob 
without ECC test, thus I removed that behavier, and fixed the user.

Now MTD_OOB_RAW behaves just like MTD_OOB_PLACE, but doesn't do ECC 
validation

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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This changes the behavier of MTD_OOB_RAW. It used to read both OOB and 
data to the data buffer, however you would still need to specify the 
dummy oob buffer.

This is only used in one place, but makes it hard to read data+oob 
without ECC test, thus I removed that behavier, and fixed the user.

Now MTD_OOB_RAW behaves just like MTD_OOB_PLACE, but doesn't do ECC 
validation

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: create unlocked versions of {get,put}_mtd_device</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T17:03:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Levitsky</name>
<email>maximlevitsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-22T18:39:28+00:00</published>
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Use these only if you know that you already hold mtd_table_mutex

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Use these only if you know that you already hold mtd_table_mutex

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: Replace static array of devices with an idr structure</title>
<updated>2010-02-25T11:55:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-29T20:59:42+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: fix the conversion from dev to mtd_info</title>
<updated>2009-08-03T13:16:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Saeed Bishara</name>
<email>saeed@marvell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-28T11:56:43+00:00</published>
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The patch fixes a bug when converting dev to mtd_info by using the
drvdata of the dev, the previous code used
container_of(dev, struct mtd_info, dev), but won't work for the mtdXro
devices as they created without being contained inside mtd_info structure.

Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara &lt;saeed@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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The patch fixes a bug when converting dev to mtd_info by using the
drvdata of the dev, the previous code used
container_of(dev, struct mtd_info, dev), but won't work for the mtdXro
devices as they created without being contained inside mtd_info structure.

Signed-off-by: Saeed Bishara &lt;saeed@marvell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[MTD] driver model updates</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T13:29:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Brownell</name>
<email>dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-26T07:42:41+00:00</published>
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Update driver model support in the MTD framework, so it fits
better into the current udev-based hotplug framework:

 - Each mtd_info now has a device node.  MTD drivers should set
   the dev.parent field to point to the physical device, before
   setting up partitions or otherwise declaring MTDs.

 - Those device nodes always map to /sys/class/mtdX device nodes,
   which no longer depend on MTD_CHARDEV.

 - Those mtdX sysfs nodes have a "starter set" of attributes;
   it's not yet sufficient to replace /proc/mtd.

 - Enabling MTD_CHARDEV provides /sys/class/mtdXro/ nodes and the
   /sys/class/mtd*/dev attributes (for udev, mdev, etc).

 - Include a MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR macro.  It'll work with
   udev creating the /dev/mtd* nodes, not just a static rootfs.

So the sysfs structure is pretty much what you'd expect, except
that readonly chardev nodes are a bit quirky.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Update driver model support in the MTD framework, so it fits
better into the current udev-based hotplug framework:

 - Each mtd_info now has a device node.  MTD drivers should set
   the dev.parent field to point to the physical device, before
   setting up partitions or otherwise declaring MTDs.

 - Those device nodes always map to /sys/class/mtdX device nodes,
   which no longer depend on MTD_CHARDEV.

 - Those mtdX sysfs nodes have a "starter set" of attributes;
   it's not yet sufficient to replace /proc/mtd.

 - Enabling MTD_CHARDEV provides /sys/class/mtdXro/ nodes and the
   /sys/class/mtd*/dev attributes (for udev, mdev, etc).

 - Include a MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR macro.  It'll work with
   udev creating the /dev/mtd* nodes, not just a static rootfs.

So the sysfs structure is pretty much what you'd expect, except
that readonly chardev nodes are a bit quirky.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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