[PATCH v4] mtd/nand: don't use {read,write}_buf for 8-bit transfers
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 03:12:16 EST 2014
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:22:04PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> According to the Open NAND Flash Interface Specification (ONFI) Revision
> 3.1 "Parameters are always transferred on the lower 8-bits of the data
> bus." for the Get Features and Set Features commands.
>
> So using read_buf and write_buf is wrong for 16-bit wide nand chips as
> they use I/O[15:0]. The Get Features command is easily fixed using 4
> times the read_byte callback. For Set Features implement a new
> overwritable callback "write_byte". Still I expect the default to work
> just fine for all controllers and making it overwriteable was just done
> for symmetry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
I think this patch is good now, so pushed to l2-mtd.git (with a fix
[1]). Thanks Uwe!
I know there was some more discussion and other patch ideas being thrown
around (by me and others). Feel free to send patches/comments (or
Ack's/Tested-by's) if you think they need applied on top.
Brian
[1] I got a type safety warning as I pushed this out, so I squashed in
this diff:
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index 7acbce3b3675..d388c7f6fec9 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static void nand_write_byte16(struct mtd_info *mtd, uint8_t byte)
* neither an address nor a command transfer. Let's assume a 0 on the
* upper I/O lines is OK.
*/
- chip->write_buf(mtd, &word, 2);
+ chip->write_buf(mtd, (uint8_t *)&word, 2);
}
/**
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