[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 1/2] Don't panic if a controller driver does ecc its own way.

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20080414163455.GA7061 at ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
>
> > > Some hardware, such as the enhanced local bus controller used on some
> > > mpc83xx chips, does ecc transparently when reading and writing data, rather
> > > than providing a generic calculate/correct mechanism that can be exported to
> > > the nand subsystem.
> > > 
> > > The subsystem should not BUG() when calculate, correct, or hwctl are
> > > missing, if the methods that call them have been overridden.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> > 
> > This should go through the 83xx custodian, but I haven't seen this
> > yet?
> 
> Why should it go through 83xx?  It's a patch against generic NAND code.

It seems to be 83xx specific code to me?

> > Anyway, it does not apply any more:
> > 
> > Applying Don't panic if a controller driver does ecc its own way.
> > error: patch failed: drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c:2593
> > error: drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c: patch does not apply
> > fatal: sha1 information is lacking or useless
> > (drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c).
> > Repository lacks necessary blobs to fall back on 3-way merge.
> > Cannot fall back to three-way merge.
> 
> Did you try applying it against the 2.6.22.1 branch of the nand
> repository (IIRC, the non-commit-message patch comment specified that)?

No, I tried to apply this to the U-Boot repository. Maybe this was my
fault? Is this supposed to go into Linux, then?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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