Re: [PATCH v2] spi: cadence-quadspi: fix incorrect supports_op() return value

From: Pratyush Yadav
Date: Wed Apr 13 2022 - 14:11:48 EST


On 06/04/22 03:28PM, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> Since the conversion to spi-mem, the driver advertised support for
> various operations that cqspi_set_protocol() was never expected to handle
> correctly - in particuar all non-DTR operations with command or address
> buswidth > 1. For DTR, all operations except for 8-8-8 would fail, as
> cqspi_set_protocol() returns -EINVAL.
>
> In non-DTR mode, this resulted in data corruption for SPI-NOR flashes that
> support such operations. As a minimal fix that can be backported to stable
> kernels, simply disallow the unsupported operations again to avoid this
> issue.
>
> Fixes: a314f6367787 ("mtd: spi-nor: Convert cadence-quadspi to use spi-mem framework")
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I suppose it is too late now since the patch is already applied. But
FWIW,

Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@xxxxxx>

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Texas Instruments Inc.