The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 0697f8441faad552fbeb02d74454b5e7bcc956a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Cercueil paul@crapouillou.net Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:22:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: davinci: Rewrite function description
The original comment that describes the function nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first() is very obscure and it is hard to understand what it is for.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2 Fixes: a0ac778eb82c ("mtd: rawnand: ingenic: Add support for the JZ4740") Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil paul@crapouillou.net Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal@bootlin.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20211016132228.40254-3-paul@crapouillou.ne...
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c index 2e6a0c1671be..fe2511cdcae3 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c @@ -372,17 +372,15 @@ static int nand_davinci_correct_4bit(struct nand_chip *chip, u_char *data, }
/** - * nand_read_page_hwecc_oob_first - hw ecc, read oob first + * nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first - Hardware ECC page read with ECC + * data read from OOB area * @chip: nand chip info structure * @buf: buffer to store read data * @oob_required: caller requires OOB data read to chip->oob_poi * @page: page number to read * - * Hardware ECC for large page chips, require OOB to be read first. For this - * ECC mode, the write_page method is re-used from ECC_HW. These methods - * read/write ECC from the OOB area, unlike the ECC_HW_SYNDROME support with - * multiple ECC steps, follows the "infix ECC" scheme and reads/writes ECC from - * the data area, by overwriting the NAND manufacturer bad block markings. + * Hardware ECC for large page chips, which requires the ECC data to be + * extracted from the OOB before the actual data is read. */ static int nand_davinci_read_page_hwecc_oob_first(struct nand_chip *chip, uint8_t *buf,
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