7 files changed, 9 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
index 7a7df851c993..608f7af679cb 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
@@ -512,16 +512,10 @@ static int mtd_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
                 break;
         }
 
-        case MEMSETOOBSEL:
-        {
-                if (copy_from_user(&mtd->oobinfo, argp, sizeof(struct nand_oobinfo)))
-                        return -EFAULT;
-                break;
-        }
-
         case MEMGETOOBSEL:
         {
-                if (copy_to_user(argp, &(mtd->oobinfo), sizeof(struct nand_oobinfo)))
+                if (copy_to_user(argp, mtd->oobinfo,
+                                 sizeof(struct nand_oobinfo)))
                         return -EFAULT;
                 break;
         }
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
index 6d52137988fa..699fce7770de 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
@@ -766,9 +766,7 @@ struct mtd_info *mtd_concat_create(struct mtd_info *subdev[],	/* subdevices to c
 
         }
 
-        if(concat->mtd.type == MTD_NANDFLASH)
-                memcpy(&concat->mtd.oobinfo, &subdev[0]->oobinfo,
-                        sizeof(struct nand_oobinfo));
+        concat->mtd.oobinfo = subdev[0]->oobinfo;
 
         concat->num_subdev = num_devs;
         concat->mtd.name = name;
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
index a93550ce7978..b6b218952d49 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
                 slave->mtd.size = parts[i].size;
                 slave->mtd.writesize = master->writesize;
                 slave->mtd.oobsize = master->oobsize;
-                slave->mtd.oobavail = master->oobavail;
                 slave->mtd.ecctype = master->ecctype;
                 slave->mtd.eccsize = master->eccsize;
 
@@ -435,8 +434,7 @@ int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
                                 parts[i].name);
                 }
 
-                /* copy oobinfo from master */
-                memcpy(&slave->mtd.oobinfo, &master->oobinfo, sizeof(slave->mtd.oobinfo));
+                slave->mtd.oobinfo = master->oobinfo;
 
                 if(parts[i].mtdp)
                 {       /* store the object pointer (caller may or may not register it */
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index 023224dd12eb..20f79fec73b5 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -2143,14 +2143,6 @@ int nand_scan(struct mtd_info *mtd, int maxchips)
         }
 
         /*
-         * The number of bytes available for the filesystem to place fs
-         * dependend oob data
-         */
-        mtd->oobavail = 0;
-        for (i = 0; chip->autooob->oobfree[i][1]; i++)
-                mtd->oobavail += chip->autooob->oobfree[i][1];
-
-        /*
          * check ECC mode, default to software if 3byte/512byte hardware ECC is
          * selected and we have 256 byte pagesize fallback to software ECC
          */
@@ -2245,7 +2237,7 @@ int nand_scan(struct mtd_info *mtd, int maxchips)
         mtd->block_markbad = nand_block_markbad;
 
         /* and make the autooob the default one */
-        memcpy(&mtd->oobinfo, chip->autooob, sizeof(mtd->oobinfo));
+        mtd->oobinfo = chip->autooob;
 
         /* Check, if we should skip the bad block table scan */
         if (chip->options & NAND_SKIP_BBTSCAN)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
index 7a2419186ff4..b24bfa6e202c 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/onenand/onenand_base.c
@@ -1762,7 +1762,7 @@ int onenand_scan(struct mtd_info *mtd, int maxchips)
                 break;
         }
 
-        memcpy(&mtd->oobinfo, this->autooob, sizeof(mtd->oobinfo));
+        mtd->oobinfo = this->autooob;
 
         /* Fill in remaining MTD driver data */
         mtd->type = MTD_NANDFLASH;
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
index 717fa2f52ac2..dc275cedfe4a 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ static struct nand_oobinfo jffs2_oobinfo_docecc = {
 
 static int jffs2_nand_set_oobinfo(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 {
-        struct nand_oobinfo *oinfo = &c->mtd->oobinfo;
+        struct nand_oobinfo *oinfo = c->mtd->oobinfo;
 
         /* Do this only, if we have an oob buffer */
         if (!c->mtd->oobsize)
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
index 41a984dcb139..8429da51bb09 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
@@ -101,9 +101,8 @@ struct mtd_info {
         char *name;
         int index;
 
-        // oobinfo is a nand_oobinfo structure, which can be set by iotcl (MEMSETOOBINFO)
-        struct nand_oobinfo oobinfo;
-        u_int32_t oobavail;  // Number of bytes in OOB area available for fs
+        /* oobinfo structure pointer - read only ! */
+        struct nand_oobinfo *oobinfo;
 
         /* Data for variable erase regions. If numeraseregions is zero,
          * it means that the whole device has erasesize as given above.