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mtd: nand: gpmi: need to use {read,write}_oob_raw 

This patch is simply an added warning in the comments. Ideally, this patch
need not be merged, but rather, a developer will write a proper solution
that can use the ecc.read_oob_raw and ecc.write_oob_raw interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Brian Norris 2012-05-11 13:30:35 -07:00 committed by David Woodhouse
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@ -1064,6 +1064,9 @@ exit_auxiliary:
* ECC-based or raw view of the page is implicit in which function it calls
* (there is a similar pair of ECC-based/raw functions for writing).
*
* FIXME: The following paragraph is incorrect, now that there exist
* ecc.read_oob_raw and ecc.write_oob_raw functions.
*
* Since MTD assumes the OOB is not covered by ECC, there is no pair of
* ECC-based/raw functions for reading or or writing the OOB. The fact that the
* caller wants an ECC-based or raw view of the page is not propagated down to