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    mtd: rawnand: Let callers use the bare Hamming helpers · d8467112
    Miquel Raynal authored
    Before the introduction of the ECC framework infrastructure, many
    drivers used the ->calculate/correct() Hamming helpers directly. The
    point of this framework was to avoid this kind of hackish calls and use a
    proper and generic API but it is true that in certain cases, drivers
    still need to use these helpers in order to do ECC computations on
    behalf of their limited hardware.
    
    Right after the introduction of the ECC engine core introduction, it was
    spotted that it was not possible to use the shiny rawnand software ECC
    helpers so easily because an ECC engine object should have been
    allocated and initialized first. While this works well in most cases,
    for these drivers just leveraging the power of a single helper in
    conjunction with some pretty old and limited hardware, it did not fit.
    
    The idea back then was to declare intermediate helpers which would make
    use of the exported software ECC engine bare functions while keeping the
    rawnand layer compatibility. As there was already functions with the
    rawnand_sw_hamming_ prefix it was decided to declare new local helpers
    for this purpose in each driver needing one.
    
    Besides being far from optimal, this design choice was blamed by Linus
    when he pulled the "fixes" pull request [1] so that is why now it is
    time to clean this mess up.
    
    Enhancing the implementation of the rawnand_ecc_sw_* helpers to support
    both cases, when the ECC object is instantiated and when it is not is a
    quite elegant way to solve this situation. This way, we can still use
    the existing and exported rawnand helpers while avoiding the need for
    each driver to declare its own helper.
    
    Following this change, most of the fixes sent in [2] can now be safely
    reverted. Only the fsmc fix will need to be kept because there is
    actually something specific to the driver to do in its ->correct()
    helper.
    
    [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh_ZHF685Fni8V9is17mj=pFisUaZ_0=gq6nbK+ZcyQmg@mail.gmail.com/
    [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210413161840.345208-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com/Signed-off-by: default avatarMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210928221507.199198-3-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
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