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Re: MOAB - update board support


On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 07:54, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 07:47, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Hi Gary
> > 
> > > +//
> > > +// ECC support - adapted from Linux:
> > > +//
> > > +//  drivers/mtd/nand_ecc.c
> > > +//
> > > +//  Copyright (C) 2000 Steven J. Hill (sjhill@realitydiluted.com)
> > > +//                     Toshiba America Electronics Components, Inc.
> > > +//
> > 
> > Two questions:
> > 
> > 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)

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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