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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd index 938ef71e203..1399bb2da3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mtd @@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ Description: The /sys/class/mtd/mtd{0,1,2,3,...} directories correspond to each /dev/mtdX character device. These may represent physical/simulated flash devices, partitions on a flash - device, or concatenated flash devices. They exist regardless - of whether CONFIG_MTD_CHAR is actually enabled. + device, or concatenated flash devices. What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdXro/ Date: April 2009 @@ -23,8 +22,7 @@ KernelVersion: 2.6.29 Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Description: These directories provide the corresponding read-only device - nodes for /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ . They are only created - (for the benefit of udev) if CONFIG_MTD_CHAR is enabled. + nodes for /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ . What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/dev Date: April 2009 @@ -106,7 +104,7 @@ Description: One of the following ASCII strings, representing the device type: - absent, ram, rom, nor, nand, dataflash, ubi, unknown + absent, ram, rom, nor, nand, mlc-nand, dataflash, ubi, unknown What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/writesize Date: April 2009 @@ -130,9 +128,8 @@ KernelVersion: 3.4 Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Description: Maximum number of bit errors that the device is capable of - correcting within each region covering an ecc step. This will - always be a non-negative integer. Note that some devices will - have multiple ecc steps within each writesize region. + correcting within each region covering an ECC step (see + ecc_step_size). This will always be a non-negative integer. In the case of devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0. @@ -175,3 +172,15 @@ Description: This is generally applicable only to NAND flash devices with ECC capability. It is ignored on devices lacking ECC capability; i.e., devices for which ecc_strength is zero. + +What: /sys/class/mtd/mtdX/ecc_step_size +Date: May 2013 +KernelVersion: 3.10 +Contact: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org +Description: + The size of a single region covered by ECC, known as the ECC + step. Devices may have several equally sized ECC steps within + each writesize region. + + It will always be a non-negative integer. In the case of + devices lacking any ECC capability, it is 0. |