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+/*
+ * YAFFS: Yet another Flash File System . A NAND-flash specific file system.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Aleph One Ltd.
+ * for Toby Churchill Ltd and Brightstar Engineering
+ *
+ * Created by Charles Manning <charles@aleph1.co.uk>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Note: Only YAFFS headers are LGPL, YAFFS C code is covered by GPL.
+ */
+
+ /*
+ * This code implements the ECC algorithm used in SmartMedia.
+ *
+ * The ECC comprises 22 bits of parity information and is stuffed into 3 bytes.
+ * The two unused bit are set to 1.
+ * The ECC can correct single bit errors in a 256-byte page of data. Thus, two such ECC
+ * blocks are used on a 512-byte NAND page.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef __YAFFS_ECC_H__
+#define __YAFFS_ECC_H__
+
+typedef struct {
+ unsigned char colParity;
+ unsigned lineParity;
+ unsigned lineParityPrime;
+} yaffs_ECCOther;
+
+void yaffs_ECCCalculate(const unsigned char *data, unsigned char *ecc);
+int yaffs_ECCCorrect(unsigned char *data, unsigned char *read_ecc,
+ const unsigned char *test_ecc);
+
+void yaffs_ECCCalculateOther(const unsigned char *data, unsigned nBytes,
+ yaffs_ECCOther * ecc);
+int yaffs_ECCCorrectOther(unsigned char *data, unsigned nBytes,
+ yaffs_ECCOther * read_ecc,
+ const yaffs_ECCOther * test_ecc);
+#endif