Re: [PATCH 1/5] mtd: ofpart: grab device tree node directly from master device node

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 05:32:15PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:11:14 +0100
> Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 08:58:13 AM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > > Hi Brian,
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > Are
> > > > there ever cases we want more than one (master) MTD per nand_chip? Or
> > > > vice versa?
> > > 
> > > Nope, I'd say that you always have a 1:1 relationship between a master
> > > MTD device and a NAND device.
> > 
> > Do some sorts of chipselects come into play here ? Ie. you can have one master
> > with multiple NAND chips connected to it.
> 
> Most NAND controllers support interacting with several chips (or
> dies in case your chip embeds several NAND dies), but I keep thinking
> each physical chip should have its own instance of nand_chip + mtd_info.
> If you want to have a single mtd device aggregating several chips you
> can use mtdconcat.
> 
> This leaves the multi-dies chip case, and IHMO we should represent those
> chips as a single entity, and I guess that's the purpose of the
> ->numchips field in nand_chip (if your chip embeds 2 dies with 2 CS
> lines, then ->numchips should be 2).

Yes, I think that's some of the intention there. And so even in that
case, a multi-die chip gets represented as a single struct nand_chip.

Brian