Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 21/21] mtd: omap2: allow bulding as a module | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:34:10 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 24 April 2013, Gupta, Pekon wrote: > [Pekon]: > ELM module is required in for Hardware based ECC correction for > NAND devices. And this driver has a very small foot-print. > > The only cases this drives would not be used are: > (a) Using S/W based ECC scheme, which have vey high CPU utilization > (b) Using single bit ECC scheme, which are becoming obsolete due to > increasing NAND densities. > For most of the cases ELM module will be used with nand-driver. So > there should be no harm in having this module as built-in, if not used > in 10% of the use-cases. > > Thus I think it's better to keep this module tied to GPMC module, > rather than independent control via KConfig. > And user should just selects which ECC scheme he would like to > use via DT, without worrying about KConfig options.
Sorry, I'm lost here and have no idea what you are actually suggesting we do. Can you phrase that as a patch?
Unless you come up with a better solution, I would still like to queue up my patch since it fixes an annoying bug and seems to have no downsides.
> I'm working in cleaning up omap2-nand driver to remove some > redundancies. So would like to know your feedback on same..
Sure, just Cc me on your patches.
Arnd
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