mtd: nand: expand description of read_page method in comment header
authorMike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:59:03 +0000 (08:59 -0700)
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:53:15 +0000 (15:53 +0100)
In the absence of any formal documentation of the nand interface, I thought this
patch to the header file might be helpful.

Signed-off-by: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
include/linux/mtd/nand.h

index 8f99d36..d245199 100644 (file)
@@ -326,8 +326,10 @@ struct nand_hw_control {
  * @read_page_raw:     function to read a raw page without ECC
  * @write_page_raw:    function to write a raw page without ECC
  * @read_page: function to read a page according to the ECC generator
- *             requirements.
- * @read_subpage:      function to read parts of the page covered by ECC.
+ *             requirements; returns maximum number of bitflips corrected in
+ *             any single ECC step, 0 if bitflips uncorrectable, -EIO hw error
+ * @read_subpage:      function to read parts of the page covered by ECC;
+ *                     returns same as read_page()
  * @write_page:        function to write a page according to the ECC generator
  *             requirements.
  * @write_oob_raw:     function to write chip OOB data without ECC