[PATCH reworded] Revert "nvmem: add new config option"

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Oct 27 04:18:43 PDT 2023


On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 12:27:59PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> 
> This reverts commit 517f14d9cf3533d5ab4fded195ab6f80a92e378f.
> 
> Config option "no_of_node" is no longer needed since adding a more
> explicit and targeted option "add_legacy_fixed_of_cells".
> 
> That "no_of_node" config option was needed *earlier* to help mtd's case.
> 
> DT nodes of MTD partitions (that are also NVMEM devices) may contain
> subnodes. Those SHOULD NOT be treated as NVMEM fixed cells.
> 
> To prevent NVMEM core code from parsing subnodes a "no_of_node" option
> was added (and set to true in mtd) to make for_each_child_of_node() in
> NVMEM a no-op. That was a bit hacky because it was messing with
> "of_node" pointer to achieve some side-effect.
> 
> With the introduction of "add_legacy_fixed_of_cells" config option
> things got more explicit. MTD subsystem simply tells NVMEM when to look
> for fixed cells and there is no need to hack "of_node" pointer anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla at linaro.org>
> ---
> Greg: I reworded this PATCH's commit message. It's hopefully clear now
>       that this revert is OK only with the "add_legacy_fixed_of_cells".

Much nicer, now applied, thanks!

greg k-h



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