[PATCH v5 4/8] mtd: m25p80: Let m25p80_read() fallback to spi transfer

[Kamal Dasu]

Adding Brian for this particular patch since its in the mtd domain. I
will specifically  add him as well in the next  patch set.  I do have
Vignesh in the list who added the spi_flash_read() in the list.

Kamal

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 06:13:09PM -0400, Kamal Dasu wrote:
>> In m25p80_read() even though spi_flash_read() is supported
>> by some drivers, under certain circumstances like unaligned
>> buffer, address or address range limitations on certain SoCs
>> let it fallback to core spi reads. Such drivers are expected
>> to return -EAGAIN so that the m25p80_read() uses standard
>> spi transfer.
>
> You need to send this to the MTD maintainers, I see you've CCed the list
> but not Brian and any comaintainers he has AFAICT.