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mtd: adapt misleading comment in mtd_oob_ops structure

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A comment in the kernel doc of the mtd_oob_ops structure tells that it
is not possible to write more than one page with OOB. This is actually
true for only a few MTD devices like 'onenand' but it is definitely not
a general limitation. While this would benefit to be handled elsewhere
either by the MTD layer or by the limited drivers, let's update this
comment to reflect the reality.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
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Miquel Raynal 2018-07-18 22:33:02 +02:00 committed by Boris Brezillon
parent a8222a84ce
commit d70420bcd4
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include/linux/mtd/mtd.h
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@ -67,9 +67,11 @@ struct mtd_erase_region_info {
* @datbuf: data buffer - if NULL only oob data are read/written
* @oobbuf: oob data buffer
*
* Note, it is allowed to read more than one OOB area at one go, but not write.
* The interface assumes that the OOB write requests program only one page's
* OOB area.
* Note, some MTD drivers do not allow you to write more than one OOB area at
* one go. If you try to do that on such an MTD device, -EINVAL will be
* returned. If you want to make your implementation portable on all kind of MTD
* devices you should split the write request into several sub-requests when the
* request crosses a page boundary.
*/
struct mtd_oob_ops {
unsigned int mode;