[PATCH v1] Revert "ARM: dts: imx7: Fix NAND controller size-cells"

Francesco Dolcini francesco at dolcini.it
Thu Dec 8 08:40:49 PST 2022


+ Arnd

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 11:51:24AM +0100, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> marex at denx.de wrote on Mon, 5 Dec 2022 17:26:53 +0100:
> > On 12/5/22 16:23, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > > From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini at toradex.com>
> > > 
> > > This reverts commit 753395ea1e45c724150070b5785900b6a44bd5fb.
> > > 
> > > It introduced a boot regression on colibri-imx7, and potentially any
> > > other i.MX7 boards with MTD partition list generated into the fdt by
> > > U-Boot.
> > > 
> > > While the commit we are reverting here is not obviously wrong, it fixes
> > > only a dt binding checker warning that is non-functional, while it
> > > introduces a boot regression and there is no obvious fix ready.
> > > 
> > > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> > > Fixes: 753395ea1e45 ("ARM: dts: imx7: Fix NAND controller size-cells")
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y4dgBTGNWpM6SQXI@francesco-nb.int.toradex.com/
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221205144917.6514168a@xps-13/
> > > Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini at toradex.com>
> [...]
> > Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
> [...]
> > Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> [...]
> 
> As discussed in the above links, boot is broken on imx7 Colibri boards,
> this revert was the most quick and straightforward fix we agreed upon
> with the hope (~ duty?) it would make it in v6.1. Any chance you could
> pick this up rapidly and forward it to Linus? Or should we involve
> him directly (Thorsten?).

Hello Arnd,
FYI - see Miquel explanation above.

Francesco



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