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Re: MOAB - update board support
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 08:05, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > 1) How generic is this? Should it actually go into io/flash or even
> > > > service/crc?
> > >
> > > It's very specific to the NAND ECC code, so no it doesn't belong
> > > anywhere outside the FLASH tree. Maybe it could be moved to the
> > > IO/FLASH area, but even that's debatable.
> > >
> >
> > Also, expect to see this change [perhaps quite a lot] with the new FLASH
> > drivers (and full NAND support in JFFS2)
>
> What i would not want to see is every flash driver having its own
> implementation of a simple 1 bit ECC algorithm. If this is generic it
> should be somewhere shared not inside an inline driver file.
Fair enough - I'll see about making sure it can be generic and shared.
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Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates