[PATCH RESEND v6 1/2] mtd: fsl-quadspi: Distinguish the mtd device names
Fabio Estevam
festevam at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 17:47:12 PST 2018
Hi Cyrille,
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
>
> Currently on a imx6sx-sdb board, which has two SPI NOR chips connected
> to QSPI2 the following output from /proc/mtd is seen:
>
> # cat /proc/mtd
> dev: size erasesize name
> mtd0: 01000000 00010000 "21e4000.qspi"
> mtd1: 01000000 00010000 "21e4000.qspi"
>
> Attempts to partition them on the kernel command line result in both
> chips with identical (and identically named) partitions, which is
> an inconvenient behavior.
>
> Assign a different mtd->name for each mtd device to avoid this problem.
>
> After this change the output from /proc/mtd becomes:
>
> # cat /proc/mtd
> dev: size erasesize name
> mtd0: 01000000 00010000 "21e4000.qspi-0"
> mtd1: 01000000 00010000 "21e4000.qspi-1"
>
> In order to keep mtdparts compatibility keep the mtd->name
> unchanged when a single SPI NOR is present.
>
> Reported-by: David Wolfe <david.wolfe at nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> Acked-by: Han Xu <han.xu at nxp.com>
> ---
> Resending it as I missed to send it to Cyrille
A gentle ping on this series.
>
> Changes since v5:
> - Preserve the label value, if any. (Boris)
>
> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c
> index 2901c7b..1038842 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c
> @@ -1051,6 +1051,24 @@ static int fsl_qspi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> spi_nor_set_flash_node(nor, np);
> nor->priv = q;
>
> + if (q->nor_num > 1 && !mtd->name) {
> + int spiflash_idx;
> +
> + ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "reg", &spiflash_idx);
> + if (!ret) {
> + mtd->name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL,
> + "%s-%d",
> + dev_name(dev),
> + spiflash_idx);
> + if (!mtd->name) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto mutex_failed;
> + }
> + } else {
> + dev_warn(dev, "reg property is missing\n");
> + }
> + }
> +
> /* fill the hooks */
> nor->read_reg = fsl_qspi_read_reg;
> nor->write_reg = fsl_qspi_write_reg;
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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