[PATCH] ARM: i.MX: bbu-internal: call detect for mmc devices

Stefan Christ s.christ at phytec.de
Tue Mar 1 02:56:05 PST 2016


Hi Sascha,

> device_detect_by_name() should be safe to call, I don't think we need
> this additional flag. Just always call device_detect_by_name(). We have
> to drop the return value checking though.
> 
> In fact we have the following patch in one of our internal customer
> trees, this should be suitable for your issue, right?

Yep. These two lines of code are sufficent for our use case ;-) Here is my:

    Tested-by: Stefan Christ <s.christ at phytec.de>

Will you apply that patch to master?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards,
	Stefan Christ

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:22:32AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:15:22PM +0100, Stefan Christ wrote:
> > For the MMC update_handler it makes sense to probe the device before
> > writing to it. If the device is not probed yet, you get errors like
> > 
> >     $ barebox_update -y -t mmc0 /mnt/tftp/barebox.bin
> >     barebox_update: Read-only file system
> > 
> > The code is nearly equivalent to
> > 
> >     $ detect mmc0
> >     $ barebox_update -y -t mmc0 /mnt/tftp/barebox.bin
> > 
> > The function device_detect_by_name also handles device names with
> > partition suffix like "/dev/mmc3.boot0".
> > 
> > While at it, use the macro BIT for the bit field.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Christ <s.christ at phytec.de>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c
> > index ac90c53..1ecc0d7 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c
> > @@ -34,9 +34,10 @@
> >  
> >  #define FLASH_HEADER_OFFSET_MMC		0x400
> >  
> > -#define IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_NAND		(1 << 0)
> > -#define IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_KEEP_DOSPART	(1 << 1)
> > -#define IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_ERASE		(1 << 2)
> > +#define IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_NAND		BIT(0)
> > +#define IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_KEEP_DOSPART	BIT(1)
> > +#define IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_ERASE		BIT(2)
> > +#define IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_PROBE		BIT(3)
> >  
> >  struct imx_internal_bbu_handler {
> >  	struct bbu_handler handler;
> > @@ -52,8 +53,21 @@ struct imx_internal_bbu_handler {
> >  static int imx_bbu_write_device(struct imx_internal_bbu_handler *imx_handler,
> >  		struct bbu_data *data, void *buf, int image_len)
> >  {
> > +	const char *devname;
> >  	int fd, ret;
> >  
> > +	if (imx_handler->flags & IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_PROBE) {
> 
> device_detect_by_name() should be safe to call, I don't think we need
> this additional flag. Just always call device_detect_by_name(). We have
> to drop the return value checking though.
> 
> In fact we have the following patch in one of our internal customer
> trees, this should be suitable for your issue, right?
> 
> Sascha
> 
> -------------------------------8<-----------------------------
> 
> From 5770640f4b06730bfd71eadce60bd411e437832b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:41:55 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: i.MX: bbu-internal: detect device before writing to it
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c
> index ac90c53..821ce66 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx-bbu-internal.c
> @@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ static int imx_bbu_check_prereq(struct bbu_data *data)
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> +	if (!strncmp(data->devicefile, "/dev/", 5))
> +		device_detect_by_name(data->devicefile + 5);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.0
> 
> 
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