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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd index 7883508..db1ad7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd @@ -167,7 +167,10 @@ Description: block degradation, but high enough to avoid the consequences of a persistent return value of -EUCLEAN on devices where sticky bitflips occur. Note that if bitflip_threshold exceeds - ecc_strength, -EUCLEAN is never returned by the read functions. + ecc_strength, -EUCLEAN is never returned by mtd_read(). + Conversely, if bitflip_threshold is zero, -EUCLEAN is always + returned, absent a hard error. This is generally applicable only to NAND flash devices with ECC - capability. It is ignored on devices lacking ECC capability. + capability. It is ignored on devices lacking ECC capability; + i.e., devices for which ecc_strength is zero. |
