linux/drivers/staging/mt29f_spinand
Boris Brezillon 25f815f66a mtd: nand: force drivers to explicitly send READ/PROG commands
The core currently send the READ0 and SEQIN+PAGEPROG commands in
nand_do_read/write_ops(). This is inconsistent with
->read/write_oob[_raw]() hooks behavior which are expected to send
these commands.

There's already a flag (NAND_ECC_CUSTOM_PAGE_ACCESS) to inform the core
that a specific controller wants to send the READ/SEQIN+PAGEPROG
commands on its own, but it's an opt-in flag, and existing drivers are
unlikely to be updated to pass it.

Moreover, some controllers cannot dissociate the READ/PAGEPROG commands
from the associated data transfer and ECC engine activation, and
developers have to hack things in their ->cmdfunc() implementation to
handle such complex cases, or have to accept the perf penalty of sending
twice the same command.
To address this problem we are planning on adding a new interface which
is passed all information about a NAND operation (including the amount
of data to transfer) and replacing all calls to ->cmdfunc() to calls to
this new ->exec_op() hook. But, in order to do that, we need to have all
->cmdfunc() calls placed near their associated ->read/write_buf/byte()
calls.

Modify the core and relevant drivers to make NAND_ECC_CUSTOM_PAGE_ACCESS
the default case, and remove this flag.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
[miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com: tested, fixed and rebased on nand/next]
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-14 13:34:17 +01:00
..
Kconfig staging: mt29f_spinand: Fix typo in Kconfig 2015-01-17 16:22:15 -08:00
Makefile
TODO
mt29f_spinand.c mtd: nand: force drivers to explicitly send READ/PROG commands 2017-12-14 13:34:17 +01:00
mt29f_spinand.h staging: mt29f_spinand: kill unused ecclayout field 2016-01-26 10:27:37 -08:00