Commit abc37e67 authored by Dan Brown's avatar Dan Brown Committed by Thomas Gleixner

[MTD] DiskOnChip: Add some comments

Add helpful comment about oobfree so I can't claim two years from 
now that I don't remember what I was thinking.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Brown <dan_brown@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 7e4a1d3e
......@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
*
* Interface to generic NAND code for M-Systems DiskOnChip devices
*
* $Id: diskonchip.c,v 1.53 2005/04/07 13:39:13 dbrown Exp $
* $Id: diskonchip.c,v 1.54 2005/04/07 14:22:55 dbrown Exp $
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
......@@ -1049,6 +1049,16 @@ static int doc200x_correct_data(struct mtd_info *mtd, u_char *dat, u_char *read_
//u_char mydatabuf[528];
/* The strange out-of-order .oobfree list below is a (possibly unneeded)
* attempt to retain compatibility. It used to read:
* .oobfree = { {8, 8} }
* Since that leaves two bytes unusable, it was changed. But the following
* scheme might affect existing jffs2 installs by moving the cleanmarker:
* .oobfree = { {6, 10} }
* jffs2 seems to handle the above gracefully, but the current scheme seems
* safer. The only problem with it is that any code that parses oobfree must
* be able to handle out-of-order segments.
*/
static struct nand_oobinfo doc200x_oobinfo = {
.useecc = MTD_NANDECC_AUTOPLACE,
.eccbytes = 6,
......
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