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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mtd: set the ecc step size for master/slave mtd_info</title>
<updated>2013-08-30T20:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Shijie</name>
<email>b32955@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-16T02:10:06+00:00</published>
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Set the ecc step size for master/slave mtd_info{}.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie &lt;b32955@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Set the ecc step size for master/slave mtd_info{}.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie &lt;b32955@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mtd: mtdcore: use const qualifier</title>
<updated>2013-04-05T12:04:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-12T08:51:35+00:00</published>
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Be a bit stricter and add few more 'const' qualifiers.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Be a bit stricter and add few more 'const' qualifiers.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: add 'const' qualifier to a couple of register functions</title>
<updated>2013-04-05T12:02:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-11T13:38:48+00:00</published>
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'mtd_device_parse_register()' and 'parse_mtd_partitions()' functions accept a
an array of character pointers. These functions modify neither the pointers nor
the characters they point to. The characters are actually names of the MTD
parsers.

At the moment, the argument type is 'const char **', which means that only the
names of the parsers are constant. Let's turn the argument type into 'const
char * const *', which means that both names and the pointers which point to
them are constant.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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'mtd_device_parse_register()' and 'parse_mtd_partitions()' functions accept a
an array of character pointers. These functions modify neither the pointers nor
the characters they point to. The characters are actually names of the MTD
parsers.

At the moment, the argument type is 'const char **', which means that only the
names of the parsers are constant. Let's turn the argument type into 'const
char * const *', which means that both names and the pointers which point to
them are constant.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'disintegrate-mtd-20121009' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers</title>
<updated>2012-10-09T14:04:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>David.Woodhouse@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-09T14:03:21+00:00</published>
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UAPI Disintegration 2012-10-09

Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/configs/bcmring_defconfig
	arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx51-imx53.c
	drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig
	drivers/mtd/nand/bcm_umi_nand.c
	drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bcm_umi.h
	drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c
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UAPI Disintegration 2012-10-09

Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/configs/bcmring_defconfig
	arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx51-imx53.c
	drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig
	drivers/mtd/nand/bcm_umi_nand.c
	drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bcm_umi.h
	drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c
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<entry>
<title>mtd: mtdpart: break it as soon as we parse out the partitions</title>
<updated>2012-09-29T14:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Shijie</name>
<email>shijie8@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-18T17:07:41+00:00</published>
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We may cause a memory leak when the @types has more then one parser.

Take the `default_mtd_part_types` for example. The default_mtd_part_types has
two parsers now: `cmdlinepart` and `ofpart`.

Assume the following case:
The kernel command line sets the partitions like:
	#gpmi-nand:20m(boot),20m(kernel),1g(rootfs),-(user)
But the devicetree file(such as arch/arm/boot/dts/imx28-evk.dts) also sets
the same partitions as the kernel command line does.

In the current code, the partitions parsed out by the `ofpart` will
overwrite the @pparts which has already set by the `cmdlinepart` parser,
and the the partitions parsed out by the `cmdlinepart` is missed.
A memory leak occurs.

So we should break the code as soon as we parse out the partitions,
In actually, this patch makes a priority order between the parsers.
If one parser has already parsed out the partitions successfully,
it's no need to use another parser anymore.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie8@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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We may cause a memory leak when the @types has more then one parser.

Take the `default_mtd_part_types` for example. The default_mtd_part_types has
two parsers now: `cmdlinepart` and `ofpart`.

Assume the following case:
The kernel command line sets the partitions like:
	#gpmi-nand:20m(boot),20m(kernel),1g(rootfs),-(user)
But the devicetree file(such as arch/arm/boot/dts/imx28-evk.dts) also sets
the same partitions as the kernel command line does.

In the current code, the partitions parsed out by the `ofpart` will
overwrite the @pparts which has already set by the `cmdlinepart` parser,
and the the partitions parsed out by the `cmdlinepart` is missed.
A memory leak occurs.

So we should break the code as soon as we parse out the partitions,
In actually, this patch makes a priority order between the parsers.
If one parser has already parsed out the partitions successfully,
it's no need to use another parser anymore.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie &lt;shijie8@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: mtdparts: introduce mtd_get_device_size</title>
<updated>2012-09-04T06:38:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Genoud</name>
<email>richard.genoud@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-10T16:23:40+00:00</published>
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'mtd_get_device_size()' returns the size of the whole MTD device, that is the
mtd_info master size. This will be used by UBI to calculate the maximum number
of bad blocks (MBB) on a MTD device.

Artem: amended the patch a bit.

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud &lt;richard.genoud@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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'mtd_get_device_size()' returns the size of the whole MTD device, that is the
mtd_info master size. This will be used by UBI to calculate the maximum number
of bad blocks (MBB) on a MTD device.

Artem: amended the patch a bit.

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud &lt;richard.genoud@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: mark mtd_is_partition argument as constant</title>
<updated>2012-09-04T06:38:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Genoud</name>
<email>richard.genoud@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-10T16:23:39+00:00</published>
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'struct mtd_info' is not modified by 'mtd_is_partition()' so it can be marked
as "const".

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud &lt;richard.genoud@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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'struct mtd_info' is not modified by 'mtd_is_partition()' so it can be marked
as "const".

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud &lt;richard.genoud@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: driver _read() returns max_bitflips; mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN</title>
<updated>2012-05-14T04:14:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Dunn</name>
<email>mikedunn@newsguy.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-25T19:06:11+00:00</published>
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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 &gt;=
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 &lt;mikedunn@newsguy.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik &lt;robert.jarzmik@free.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Ivan Djelic &lt;ivan.djelic@parrot.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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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 &gt;=
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 &lt;mikedunn@newsguy.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik &lt;robert.jarzmik@free.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Ivan Djelic &lt;ivan.djelic@parrot.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<title>mtd: bitflip_threshold added to mtd_info and sysfs</title>
<updated>2012-05-14T04:11:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Dunn</name>
<email>mikedunn@newsguy.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-25T19:06:08+00:00</published>
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An element 'bitflip_threshold' is added to struct mtd_info, and also exposed as
a read/write variable in sysfs.  This will be used to determine whether or not
mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN or 0 (absent a hard error).  If the driver leaves it
as zero, mtd will set it to a default value of ecc_strength.

This v2 adds the line that propagates bitflip_threshold from the master to the
partitions - thanks Ivan¹.

¹ http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-April/040900.html

Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn &lt;mikedunn@newsguy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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An element 'bitflip_threshold' is added to struct mtd_info, and also exposed as
a read/write variable in sysfs.  This will be used to determine whether or not
mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN or 0 (absent a hard error).  If the driver leaves it
as zero, mtd will set it to a default value of ecc_strength.

This v2 adds the line that propagates bitflip_threshold from the master to the
partitions - thanks Ivan¹.

¹ http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-April/040900.html

Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn &lt;mikedunn@newsguy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd: flash drivers set ecc strength</title>
<updated>2012-03-26T23:56:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Dunn</name>
<email>mikedunn@newsguy.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-11T21:21:11+00:00</published>
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Flash device drivers initialize 'ecc_strength' in struct mtd_info, which is the
maximum number of bit errors that can be corrected in one writesize region.

Drivers using the nand interface intitialize 'strength' in struct nand_ecc_ctrl,
which is the maximum number of bit errors that can be corrected in one ecc step.
Nand infrastructure code translates this to 'ecc_strength'.

Also for nand drivers, the nand infrastructure code sets ecc.strength for ecc
modes NAND_ECC_SOFT, NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH, and NAND_ECC_NONE.  It is set in the
driver for all other modes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn &lt;mikedunn@newsguy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Flash device drivers initialize 'ecc_strength' in struct mtd_info, which is the
maximum number of bit errors that can be corrected in one writesize region.

Drivers using the nand interface intitialize 'strength' in struct nand_ecc_ctrl,
which is the maximum number of bit errors that can be corrected in one ecc step.
Nand infrastructure code translates this to 'ecc_strength'.

Also for nand drivers, the nand infrastructure code sets ecc.strength for ecc
modes NAND_ECC_SOFT, NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH, and NAND_ECC_NONE.  It is set in the
driver for all other modes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn &lt;mikedunn@newsguy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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