Patch "ARM: mvebu: Netgear RN102: Use Hardware BCH ECC" has been added to the 3.17-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ARM: mvebu: Netgear RN102: Use Hardware BCH ECC

to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm-mvebu-netgear-rn102-use-hardware-bch-ecc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From ace8578182dc347b043c0825b9873f62fdaa5b77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "klightspeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <klightspeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:55:41 +1000
Subject: ARM: mvebu: Netgear RN102: Use Hardware BCH ECC

From: "klightspeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <klightspeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit ace8578182dc347b043c0825b9873f62fdaa5b77 upstream.

The bootloader on the Netgear ReadyNAS RN102 uses Hardware BCH ECC
(strength = 4), while the pxa3xx NAND driver by default uses
Hamming ECC (strength = 1).

This patch changes the ECC mode on these machines to match that
of the bootloader and of the stock firmware. That way, it is
now possible to update the kernel from userland (e.g. using
standard tools from mtd-utils package); u-boot will happily
load and boot it.

Fixes: 92beaccd8b49 ("ARM: mvebu: Enable NAND controller in ReadyNAS 102 .dts file")
Signed-off-by: Ben Peddell <klightspeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410339341-3372-1-git-send-email-klightspeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-netgear-rn102.dts |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-netgear-rn102.dts
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-netgear-rn102.dts
@@ -143,6 +143,10 @@
 				marvell,nand-enable-arbiter;
 				nand-on-flash-bbt;
 
+				/* Use Hardware BCH ECC */
+				nand-ecc-strength = <4>;
+				nand-ecc-step-size = <512>;
+
 				partition@0 {
 					label = "u-boot";
 					reg = <0x0000000 0x180000>;  /* 1.5MB */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from klightspeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.17/arm-mvebu-netgear-rn102-use-hardware-bch-ecc.patch
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