Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: intel-spi: Simulate WRDI command

From: Tudor.Ambarus
Date: Wed Jul 22 2020 - 11:19:12 EST


On 7/22/20 5:36 PM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:28:30PM +0000, Tudor.Ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> + Mika
>>
>> Hi, Mika,
>>
>> Would you please review the patch from below?
>
> Sure, there is minor comment below.
>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On 7/22/20 5:01 PM, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
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>>> From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> After spi_nor_write_disable() return code checks were introduced in the
>>> spi-nor front end intel-spi backend stopped to work because WRDI was never
>>> supported and always failed.
>>>
>>> Just pretend it was sucessful and ignore the command itself. HW sequencer
>>> shall do the right thing automatically, while with SW sequencer we cannot
>>> do it anyway, because the only tool we had was preopcode and it makes no
>>> sense for WRDI.
>>>
>>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Fixes: bce679e5ae3a ("mtd: spi-nor: Check for errors after each Register Operation")
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c | 8 ++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c
>>> index 61d2a0a..134b356 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c
>>> @@ -612,6 +612,14 @@ static int intel_spi_write_reg(struct spi_nor *nor, u8 opcode, const u8 *buf,
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>>
>>> + /*
>>> + * We hope that HW sequencer will do the right thing automatically and
>>> + * with the SW seuencer we cannot use preopcode any way, so just ignore
> ^^^^^^^^
> Typo, should be sequencer.
>
> Otherwise looks good to me.
>

It looks good to me too. Should I add your R-b tag when applying?
I can fix the typo.

Cheers,
ta