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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2007-05-05 17:36:17 +0300
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2007-07-18 16:53:00 +0300
commit79b510c0f21174f4bd055d1aab156e548ae3a5f2 (patch)
tree08246f4e5ef5e59d8dc497717e3881ce997d88d3 /drivers
parent941dfb07ed91451b1c58626a0d258dfdf468b593 (diff)
UBI: add few more comments
Add few comments above ubi_scan_add_used() to explain why it is so complex. Requested by Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
index 197cd650356..b24af2104a2 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c
@@ -407,8 +407,12 @@ out_free_vidh:
* @vid_hdr: the volume identifier header
* @bitflips: if bit-flips were detected when this physical eraseblock was read
*
- * This function returns zero in case of success and a negative error code in
- * case of failure.
+ * This function adds information about a used physical eraseblock to the
+ * 'used' tree of the corresponding volume. The function is rather complex
+ * because it has to handle cases when this is not the first physical
+ * eraseblock belonging to the same logical eraseblock, and the newer one has
+ * to be picked, while the older one has to be dropped. This function returns
+ * zero in case of success and a negative error code in case of failure.
*/
int ubi_scan_add_used(const struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_scan_info *si,
int pnum, int ec, const struct ubi_vid_hdr *vid_hdr,