[PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Move n25q032 entry to Micron devices list

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Wed Oct 29 12:54:54 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 08:43:32 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 29 October 2014 20:19, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 06:40:46 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> On 29 October 2014 15:05, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 10:57:55 AM, Chunhe Lan wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > [...]
> >> > 
> >> > There are problems with this patch. Firstly, it misses any description
> >> > explaining why the change took place at all. From an outside observer
> >> > point of view, this change seems random at best.
> >> 
> >> This looks like a normal cleaning for me.
> > 
> > We can only guess, since the commit message is missing.
> 
> Maybe the topic says everything the patch does :)

Maybe :)

> >> > I can only speculate here, that your SPI NOR was
> >> > recognised as some other part, right ? That's why moving the n25q032
> >> > higher resolved the problem for you, right ?
> >> > 
> >> > The problem is with the fragility of this code which matches the JEDEC
> >> > ID and type of the SPI NOR. I recall Huang had some patches which
> >> > tried to resolve this, not sure what the status of those patches is
> >> > though.
> >> 
> >> Wait, what? OK, this makes things tricky. Does this patch really
> >> change any behavior? How does it happen? I don't see any duplicated
> >> entry with the same JEDEC ID (0x20ba16).
> >> 
> >> Could you give us some more details?
> > 
> > Please see this thread:
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2014-April/053308.html
> > 
> > This is where the discussion about ordering in the table took place
> > and where the patch for implementing the support for length of READID
> > return value was proposed.
> 
> As I said, entry "n25q032" doesn't share JEDEC with anything else and
> does not even have an ext_id. So I don't think it's related to the
> s25fl128s vs. s25fl129p1 problem.

I hope that's the case. Clearly, proper commit message would help clarify
this case ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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