[RFT PATCH 1/4] mtd: fsl-quadspi: use automatic spi-nor detection

[Han Xu]

Seems Huang has changed the e-mail address.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Brian Norris
<computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 07:40:27AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> On 14 August 2015 at 01:24, Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Now, each flash connected to the controller has its own device_node. All
>> > this patch is saying is that we don't need to know much about that node;
>> > as long as it responds to the READ ID command properly, spi_nor_scan()
>> > can autodetect it.
>> >
>>
>> And if there was suppor for a flash chip that does not respond to READ
>> ID (or uses a different opcode for it) this patch would break it,
>> right?
>
> For the latter: this already doesn't support chips that use different
> opcodes.
>
> For the former: we're only talking about the "*-nonjedec" and similar,
> right? I'm not confident those were supported well by this driver in the
> first place. (And "*-nonjedec" should really die; if it's needed,
> support should be added by design, not by accident.)
>
> Perhaps Huang can comment.
>
> Brian
>
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