Let's not attempt the abolition of mtd->type until/unless it's properly
thought through. And certainly, let's not do it by halves.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Ram devices get the extra capability of MTD_NO_ERASE - not requiring
an explicit erase before writing to it. Currently only mtdblock uses
this capability. Rest of the patch is a simple text replacement.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Hopefully the last iteration on this!
The handling of out of band data on NAND was accompanied by tons of fruitless
discussions and halfarsed patches to make it work for a particular
problem. Sufficiently annoyed by I all those "I know it better" mails and the
resonable amount of discarded "it solves my problem" patches, I finally decided
to go for the big rework. After removing the _ecc variants of mtd read/write
functions the solution to satisfy the various requirements was to refactor the
read/write _oob functions in mtd.
The major change is that read/write_oob now takes a pointer to an operation
descriptor structure "struct mtd_oob_ops".instead of having a function with at
least seven arguments.
read/write_oob which should probably renamed to a more descriptive name, can do
the following tasks:
- read/write out of band data
- read/write data content and out of band data
- read/write raw data content and out of band data (ecc disabled)
struct mtd_oob_ops has a mode field, which determines the oob handling mode.
Aside of the MTD_OOB_RAW mode, which is intended to be especially for
diagnostic purposes and some internal functions e.g. bad block table creation,
the other two modes are for mtd clients:
MTD_OOB_PLACE puts/gets the given oob data exactly to/from the place which is
described by the ooboffs and ooblen fields of the mtd_oob_ops strcuture. It's
up to the caller to make sure that the byte positions are not used by the ECC
placement algorithms.
MTD_OOB_AUTO puts/gets the given oob data automaticaly to/from the places in
the out of band area which are described by the oobfree tuples in the ecclayout
data structre which is associated to the devicee.
The decision whether data plus oob or oob only handling is done depends on the
setting of the datbuf member of the data structure. When datbuf == NULL then
the internal read/write_oob functions are selected, otherwise the read/write
data routines are invoked.
Tested on a few platforms with all variants. Please be aware of possible
regressions for your particular device / application scenario
Disclaimer: Any whining will be ignored from those who just contributed "hot
air blurb" and never sat down to tackle the underlying problem of the mess in
the NAND driver grown over time and the big chunk of work to fix up the
existing users. The problem was not the holiness of the existing MTD
interfaces. The problems was the lack of time to go for the big overhaul. It's
easy to add more mess to the existing one, but it takes alot of effort to go
for a real solution.
Improvements and bugfixes are welcome!
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Removing readv from struct mtd_info broke block2mtd. Remove the
reference and the useless default implementation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
MTD clients are agnostic of FLASH which needs ECC suppport.
Remove the functions and fixup the callers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
At least two flashes exists that have the concept of a minimum write unit,
similar to NAND pages, but no other NAND characteristics. Therefore, rename
the minimum write unit to "writesize" for all flashes, including NAND.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
The previous code wouldn't work correctly on architectures which have a
non-empty MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX, and this version is neater if slightly
less optimal in the built-in case.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c: In function `DoC_Probe':
drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c:338: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.c:341: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
In an unrelated MTD commit, a description about the ms02-nv module
got removed from Kconfig. While I personally agree with this
removal, the module maintainer (Maciej W. Rozycki) would like to
see it added back. In the absense of any consistency regarding
Kconfig descriptions his wish should be followed.
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:56:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.17-rc3-mm1:
>...
> git-mtd.patch
>...
> git trees
>...
If we correct the names of the config options, the code might actually
work as intended...
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
There's a mem leak in drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c::block2mtd_setup()
We can leak 'name' allocated with kmalloc in 'parse_name' if leave via
the 'parse_err' macro since it contains a return but doesn't do any
freeing.
Spotted by coverity checker as bug 615.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
There are two code paths in drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c::phram_setup() that
will leak memory.
Memory is allocated to the variable 'name' with kmalloc() by the
parse_name() function, but if we leave by way of the parse_err() macro,
then that memory is never kfree()'d, nor is it ever used with
register_device() so it won't be freed later either - leak.
Found by the Coverity checker as #593 - simple fix below.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Oops. Stupid StudlyCaps. Again.
This driver is doubly-deprecated because is was subsumed into doc2000.c
and _also_ we want people to start using the new NAND wrapper for these
devices anyway. But ISTR there was still one person using it because
something didn't work for them. Must chase that up and then I can kill
this.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Expand the parameter parsing for block2mtd. It now accepts:
Ki, Mi, Gi - the official prefixes for binary multiples,
see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html,
ki - mistake on my side and analog to "k" for decimal multiples,
KiB, MiB, GiB - for people that prefer to add a "B" for byte,
kiB - combination of the above.
There were complaints about not accepting "k" for 1024. This has long
been common practice, but is known to lead to confusion. Hence the new
SI units and hence block2mtd only accepts units that cannot be confused
with decimal units. Diverging from common practice doesn't always please
people, even if the change is for the better.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Fix printk format warning:
drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c:189: warning: format '%zd' expects type
'signed size_t', but argument 6 has type 'u_int32_t'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Remove the blkmtd driver.
- An alternative exists (block2mtd) that hasn't had bug report for > 1 year.
- Most embedded people tend to use ancient kernels with custom patches from
mtd cvs and elsewhere, so the 1 year warning period neither helps nor hurts
them too much.
- It's in the way of klibc. The problems caused by pulling blkmtd support
are fairly low, while the problems caused by delaying klibc can be fairly
substantial. At best, this would be a severe burden on hpa's time.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
