[PATCH v2 17/35] mtd: spi-nor: Introduce spi_nor_nonsfdp_flags_init()

[Michael Walle]

Am 2021-08-17 12:24, schrieb Pratyush Yadav:
> On 27/07/21 07:52AM, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
>> Used to initialize the NOR flags for settings that are not defined
>> in the JESD216 SFDP standard, thus can not be retrieved when parsing
>> SFDP. No functional change.
> 
> I am worried if the order in which these flags are set can cause some
> subtle bugs.
> 
> I can see one instance of it with SNOR_F_HAS_LOCK.
> spi_nor_late_init_params() checks for SNOR_F_HAS_LOCK and if there are
> no locking ops specified, it sets the default locking ops. This works
> fine before this patch because the flag is set before the function is
> called. But now, the flag will be set _after_ the function is called,
> and so you will never be able to set the default flags.

Maybe we should just forbid to look at the SNOR_F_ flags in these
functions. Instead the information could also be deduced by looking at
the SPI_NOR_ flags.

-michael