Re: [RESEND PATCH v3 7/8] mtd: spi-nor: Convert cadence-quadspi to use spi-mem framework

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Mon Aug 24 2020 - 08:07:14 EST


On 24.08.20 13:44, Vignesh Raghavendra wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> On 8/24/20 11:25 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> [...]
>
>>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@xxxxxx>");
>>>
>> On the AM65x, this changes mtd->name (thus mtd-id for
>> parser/cmdlinepart) from 47040000.spi.0 to spi7.0. The besides having to
>> deal with both names now, "spi7" sounds like it could easily change
>> again if someone plugs or unplugs some other SPI device. Is this intended?
>>
>
> You could use DT aliases to make sure OSPI0 is always at given bus num
> (say spi7):
>
> aliases {
> spi7 = &ospi0;
> };

Ah, looks like this is a common pattern... Thanks, will try that.

Jan

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