[PATCH v2] mtd: spinand: Disable continuous read during probe

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Fri Jan 30 06:20:09 PST 2026


On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:33:22 -0800, David LaPorte wrote:
> Macronix serial NAND devices with continuous read support do not
> clear the configuration register on soft reset and lack a hardware
> reset pin. When continuous read is interrupted (e.g., during reboot),
> the feature remains enabled at the device level.
> 
> With continuous read enabled, the OOB area becomes inaccessible and
> all reads are instead directed to the main area. As a result, during
> partition allocation as part of MTD device registration, the first two
> bytes of the main area for the master block are read and indicate that
> the block is bad. This process repeats for every subsequent block for
> the partition.
> 
> [...]

Applied to nand/next, thanks!

[1/1] mtd: spinand: Disable continuous read during probe
      commit: d47034c840c3965cc51572d69ecf634c908e8fac

Patche(s) should be available on mtd/linux.git and will be
part of the next PR (provided that no robot complains by then).

Kind regards,
Miquèl




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