From 38cbae1434f8f7bbd8eaf24b29a385a4b88938fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ferdinand Blomqvist <ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:10:38 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c b/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c index e5fdc8b9e8568..bbc01bad3053e 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, -- GitLab