[PATCH v5 1/2] mtd: fsl-quadspi: Distinguish the mtd device names

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Thu Jan 18 06:22:53 PST 2018


On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:50:47 -0200
Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com> wrote:

> 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>
> ---
> Changes since v4:
> - Only use the new name scheme when more than one SPI NOR is present (Boris)

Not a perfect solution, but at least we don't break existing setups.

> 
>  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) {

You need to preserve the label value, if any:

		if (q->nor_num > 1 && !mtd->name) {

With that fixed

Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>

> +			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;




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