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| author | Ferdinand Blomqvist <ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com> | 2019-06-20 17:10:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-06-26 14:55:47 +0200 |
| commit | 38cbae1434f8f7bbd8eaf24b29a385a4b88938fb (patch) | |
| tree | b8b44d373749e3e0717c97dbf80ce5e1f309f4d9 /lib/reed_solomon | |
| parent | ef4d6a8556b637ad27c8c2a2cff1dda3da38e9a9 (diff) | |
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rslib: Update documentation
The decoder returns the number of corrected symbols, not bits.
The caller provided syndrome must be in index form.
Signed-off-by: Ferdinand Blomqvist <ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190620141039.9874-7-ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/reed_solomon')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c b/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c index e5fdc8b9e856..bbc01bad3053 100644 --- a/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c +++ b/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c @@ -340,7 +340,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(encode_rs8); * @data: data field of a given type * @par: received parity data field * @len: data length - * @s: syndrome data field (if NULL, syndrome is calculated) + * @s: syndrome data field, must be in index form + * (if NULL, syndrome is calculated) * @no_eras: number of erasures * @eras_pos: position of erasures, can be NULL * @invmsk: invert data mask (will be xored on data, not on parity!) @@ -354,7 +355,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(encode_rs8); * decoding, so the caller has to ensure that decoder invocations are * serialized. * - * Returns the number of corrected bits or -EBADMSG for uncorrectable errors. + * Returns the number of corrected symbols or -EBADMSG for uncorrectable + * errors. The count includes errors in the parity. */ int decode_rs8(struct rs_control *rsc, uint8_t *data, uint16_t *par, int len, uint16_t *s, int no_eras, int *eras_pos, uint16_t invmsk, @@ -391,7 +393,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(encode_rs16); * @data: data field of a given type * @par: received parity data field * @len: data length - * @s: syndrome data field (if NULL, syndrome is calculated) + * @s: syndrome data field, must be in index form + * (if NULL, syndrome is calculated) * @no_eras: number of erasures * @eras_pos: position of erasures, can be NULL * @invmsk: invert data mask (will be xored on data, not on parity!) @@ -403,7 +406,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(encode_rs16); * decoding, so the caller has to ensure that decoder invocations are * serialized. * - * Returns the number of corrected bits or -EBADMSG for uncorrectable errors. + * Returns the number of corrected symbols or -EBADMSG for uncorrectable + * errors. The count includes errors in the parity. */ int decode_rs16(struct rs_control *rsc, uint16_t *data, uint16_t *par, int len, uint16_t *s, int no_eras, int *eras_pos, uint16_t invmsk, |