[PATCH v2 20/53] mtd: nand: denali: do not set mtd->name

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Boris,

2017-03-28 0:31 GMT+09:00 Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:07:27 +0900
> Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>
>> This will be filled by nand_scan_ident() later.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2: None
>>
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
>> index 3badb1d..1706975 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
>> @@ -1495,7 +1495,6 @@ int denali_init(struct denali_nand_info *denali)
>>
>>       /* now that our ISR is registered, we can enable interrupts */
>>       denali_set_intr_modes(denali, true);
>> -     mtd->name = "denali-nand";
>
> Are you sure this is safe to do that? When mtd->name is NULL, the core
> takes the parent name, and in the denali_dt case it's not "denali-nand",
> which means you're breaking mtdparts compat.

How big impact is this?

I think a bootloader could give mtdparts=denali-nand:...
but, now we are able to have partitions in DT nodes.



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada