[MTD] Rework the out of band handling completely

Hopefully the last iteration on this!

The handling of out of band data on NAND was accompanied by tons of fruitless
discussions and halfarsed patches to make it work for a particular
problem. Sufficiently annoyed by I all those "I know it better" mails and the
resonable amount of discarded "it solves my problem" patches, I finally decided
to go for the big rework. After removing the _ecc variants of mtd read/write
functions the solution to satisfy the various requirements was to refactor the
read/write _oob functions in mtd.

The major change is that read/write_oob now takes a pointer to an operation
descriptor structure "struct mtd_oob_ops".instead of having a function with at
least seven arguments.

read/write_oob which should probably renamed to a more descriptive name, can do
the following tasks:

- read/write out of band data
- read/write data content and out of band data
- read/write raw data content and out of band data (ecc disabled)

struct mtd_oob_ops has a mode field, which determines the oob handling mode.

Aside of the MTD_OOB_RAW mode, which is intended to be especially for
diagnostic purposes and some internal functions e.g. bad block table creation,
the other two modes are for mtd clients:

MTD_OOB_PLACE puts/gets the given oob data exactly to/from the place which is
described by the ooboffs and ooblen fields of the mtd_oob_ops strcuture. It's
up to the caller to make sure that the byte positions are not used by the ECC
placement algorithms.

MTD_OOB_AUTO puts/gets the given oob data automaticaly to/from the places in
the out of band area which are described by the oobfree tuples in the ecclayout
data structre which is associated to the devicee.

The decision whether data plus oob or oob only handling is done depends on the
setting of the datbuf member of the data structure. When datbuf == NULL then
the internal read/write_oob functions are selected, otherwise the read/write
data routines are invoked.

Tested on a few platforms with all variants. Please be aware of possible
regressions for your particular device / application scenario

Disclaimer: Any whining will be ignored from those who just contributed "hot
air blurb" and never sat down to tackle the underlying problem of the mess in
the NAND driver grown over time and the big chunk of work to fix up the
existing users. The problem was not the holiness of the existing MTD
interfaces. The problems was the lack of time to go for the big overhaul. It's
easy to add more mess to the existing one, but it takes alot of effort to go
for a real solution.

Improvements and bugfixes are welcome!

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
index dc2bf1bcf42b..bf2ce68901f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/nand.h
@@ -31,14 +31,6 @@ extern int nand_scan (struct mtd_info *mtd, int max_chips);
 /* Free resources held by the NAND device */
 extern void nand_release (struct mtd_info *mtd);
 
-/* Read raw data from the device without ECC */
-extern int nand_read_raw (struct mtd_info *mtd, uint8_t *buf, loff_t from,
-                          size_t len, size_t ooblen);
-
-
-extern int nand_write_raw(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to, size_t len,
-                          size_t *retlen, const uint8_t *buf, uint8_t *oob);
-
 /* The maximum number of NAND chips in an array */
 #define NAND_MAX_CHIPS          8
 
@@ -375,6 +367,8 @@ struct nand_chip {
         struct nand_buffers buffers;
         struct nand_hw_control hwcontrol;
 
+        struct mtd_oob_ops ops;
+
         uint8_t         *bbt;
         struct nand_bbt_descr   *bbt_td;
         struct nand_bbt_descr   *bbt_md;