Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 2010 04:50:45 +0900 | From | Paul Mundt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/29] Staging: yaffs2: yaffs_ecc: Add files |
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 02:40:56PM -0400, Tracey Dent wrote: > +/* > + * This code implements the ECC algorithm used in SmartMedia. > + * > + * The ECC comprises 22 bits of parity information and is stuffed into 3 bytes. > + * The two unused bit are set to 1. > + * The ECC can correct single bit errors in a 256-byte page of data. Thus, two such ECC > + * blocks are used on a 512-byte NAND page. > + * > + */ > + > +/* Table generated by gen-ecc.c > + * Using a table means we do not have to calculate p1..p4 and p1'..p4' > + * for each byte of data. These are instead provided in a table in bits7..2. > + * Bit 0 of each entry indicates whether the entry has an odd or even parity, and therefore > + * this bytes influence on the line parity. > + */ > + This all looks pretty generic. Have you considered just adding gen-ecc to lib/, tying it in to hostprogs, and generating the tables during build (see the crc32 code for reference)?
The rest of this would probably also be better off living in lib/ and simply being selected by the YAFFS code as necessary.
> +/* Calculate the ECC for a 256-byte block of data */ > +void yaffs_ecc_cacl(const unsigned char *data, unsigned char *ecc) > +void yaffs_ecc_calc_other(const unsigned char *data, unsigned n_bytes, > + yaffs_ecc_other *ecc_other)
Is there some reason for this naming inconistency?
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