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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 18:13:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 18:13:21 -0700
commitc309bfa9b481e7dbd3e1ab819271bf3009f44859 (patch)
treefc102360b3e7cb53796a451bc8fe01239c734e07 /Documentation
parent9e9ac896667a55ae9a3df119611ee5322abe2890 (diff)
parent2a500afe1e0e84c7a126df693dbd01353756dcfa (diff)
Merge tag 'for-linus-20140808' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd
Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris: "AMD-compatible CFI driver: - Support OTP programming for Micron M29EW family - Increase buffer write timeout, according to detected flash parameter info NAND - Add helpers for retrieving ONFI timing modes - GPMI: provide option to disable bad block marker swapping (required for Ka-On electronics platforms) SPI NOR - EON EN25QH128 support - Support new Flag Status Register (FSR) on a few Micron flash Common - New sysfs entries for bad block and ECC stats And a few miscellaneous refactorings, cleanups, and driver improvements" * tag 'for-linus-20140808' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (31 commits) mtd: gpmi: make blockmark swapping optional mtd: gpmi: remove line breaks from error messages and improve wording mtd: gpmi: remove useless (void *) type casts and spaces between type casts and variables mtd: atmel_nand: NFC: support multiple interrupt handling mtd: atmel_nand: implement the nfc_device_ready() by checking the R/B bit mtd: atmel_nand: add NFC status error check mtd: atmel_nand: make ecc parameters same as definition mtd: nand: add ONFI timing mode to nand_timings converter mtd: nand: define struct nand_timings mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: fix do_write_buffer() timeout error mtd: denali: use 8 bytes for READID command mtd/ftl: fix the double free of the buffers allocated in build_maps() mtd: phram: Fix whitespace issues mtd: spi-nor: add support for EON EN25QH128 mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Add support for locking OTP memory mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Add support for writing OTP memory mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Invalidate cache after entering/exiting OTP memory mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Add support for reading OTP mtd: spi-nor: add support for flag status register on Micron chips mtd: Account for BBT blocks when a partition is being allocated ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt10
2 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
index 1399bb2da3eb..76ee192f80a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd
@@ -184,3 +184,41 @@ Description:
It will always be a non-negative integer. In the case of
devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0.
+
+What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ecc_failures
+Date: June 2014
+KernelVersion: 3.17
+Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+ The number of failures reported by this device's ECC. Typically,
+ these failures are associated with failed read operations.
+
+ It will always be a non-negative integer. In the case of
+ devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0.
+
+What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/corrected_bits
+Date: June 2014
+KernelVersion: 3.17
+Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+ The number of bits that have been corrected by means of the
+ device's ECC.
+
+ It will always be a non-negative integer. In the case of
+ devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0.
+
+What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/bad_blocks
+Date: June 2014
+KernelVersion: 3.17
+Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+ The number of blocks marked as bad, if any, in this partition.
+
+What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/bbt_blocks
+Date: June 2014
+KernelVersion: 3.17
+Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+Description:
+ The number of blocks that are marked as reserved, if any, in
+ this partition. These are typically used to store the in-flash
+ bad block table (BBT).
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt
index 458d59634688..a011fdf61dbf 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/gpmi-nand.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ Optional properties:
discoverable or this property is not enabled,
the software may chooses an implementation-defined
ECC scheme.
+ - fsl,no-blockmark-swap: Don't swap the bad block marker from the OOB
+ area with the byte in the data area but rely on the
+ flash based BBT for identifying bad blocks.
+ NOTE: this is only valid in conjunction with
+ 'nand-on-flash-bbt'.
+ WARNING: on i.MX28 blockmark swapping cannot be
+ disabled for the BootROM in the FCB. Thus,
+ partitions written from Linux with this feature
+ turned on may not be accessible by the BootROM
+ code.
The device tree may optionally contain sub-nodes describing partitions of the
address space. See partition.txt for more detail.