[U-Boot] [PATCH resend V2 1/3] mtd: nand: mxs support oobsize bigger than 512

[Scott Wood]

On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 17:18 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Saturday, August 01, 2015 at 07:56:39 AM, Peng Fan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 09:36:45PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 09:15 +0800, Peng Fan wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:07:50PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 16:15 +0800, Peng Fan wrote:
> > > > > > If ecc chunk data size is 512 and oobsize is bigger than 512, 
> > > > > > there
> > > > > > is a chance that block_mark_bit_offset conflicts with bch ecc 
> > > > > > area.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The following graph is modified from kernel gpmi-nand.c driver 
> > > > > > with
> > > > > > each data block 512 bytes. We can see that Block Mark conflicts 
> > > > > > with
> > > > > > ecc area from bch view. We can enlarge the ecc chunk size to avoid
> > > > > > this problem to those oobsize which is larger than 512.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Enlarge it by how much?  What does the layout look like in that 
> > > > > case?
> > > > 
> > > > Enlarge it to 1024 bytes.
> > > 
> > > Then say so in the changelog.
> > 
> > You mean I need to add this in commit msg and send out a new patch 
> > version?
> > Or you pick this one?
> 
> This discussion is becoming ridiculous, can we please get this bugfix 
> applied ?
> If you don't like some minor details in the commit message, can you please 
> fix
> them while applying ?

Yes, I can edit the changelog while applying, but that doesn't mean I'm not 
going to complain about a difficult-to-understand changelog, and I still 
would like to understand what is actually going on here.  Don't assume I'm 
familiar with this hardware or its unusual page layout.  You can help by 
explaining things, or you can not help by throwing a fit...

-Scott