[PATCH V8 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: Bindings for Cadence Quad SPI Flash Controller driver.

[Graham Moore]

On 03/10/2016 03:10 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 03/10/2016 09:55 PM, Graham Moore wrote:
>> On 02/10/2016 10:17 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> All right, so we will just add a special property or compat string for
>>> the TI SoC. But we need to get this driver mainlined first :)
>>>
>>
>> Hi Marek,
>
> Hi Graham,
>
>> How's that mainlining going?  You probably noticed this patch needed
>> some refactoring for 4.4.  In the course of testing, we realized this
>> driver needs to enable its clock.
>>
>> Do you have a 4.4 or later version in your tree?  I'd like to add the
>> clock enabling.
>
> Still waiting for the patches from Cyrille to go in, so this patch is
> stuck. I just checked next and some of them made it, but there are more
> which didn't. I have a V10 of this patch , it is in the ML already [1],
> so try playing around with that.
>
> I have linux 4.4 branch with all the necessary patches backported and/or
> applied if you'd be interested in that, but I do my development on
> linux-next .
>
> What sort of clock patch are you missing ?
>

The clock needs to be enabled, after the devm_clk_get().  I've added a 
clk_prepare_enable() there, and also clk_disable_unprepare() in the 
remove function.

That ML patch won't apply to any tree I have, 4.4, 4.5, linux-next, etc. 
  Maybe I'll just wait until it's in linux-next.

-Graham