Re: [PATCH v2 35/35] docs: mtd: spi-nor: Add details about how to propose a new flash addition

[<Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com>]

On 7/27/21 10:22 AM, Michael Walle wrote:
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> Am 2021-07-27 06:52, schrieb Tudor Ambarus:
>> Add some guideliness on how to propose a new flash addition.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 65 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst
>> b/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst
>> index 4a3adca417fd..ffb8d97a2766 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.rst
> [..]
>> +Every new flash addition that define the SFDP tables, should hexdump
>> its SFDP
>> +tables in the patch's comment section below the --- line, so that we
>> can
>> +reference it in case of ID collisions.
> 
> Nice, but could you add some guidelines how to do it? That is the exact
> commands, maybe with a notice one should use these whenever possible. I
> want to prevent having all sorts of variations of the output and I want
> to be able to reverse the operation and verify it.

ok, will do

> 
> # xxd -p /path/to/sfdp
> # md5sum /path/to/sfdp

maybe sha1sum here?

> # cat /path/to/jedec_id
> # cat /path/to/partname
> # cat /path/to/manufacturer
> 

Will add some short examples of mtd_debug and the erase, verify, write, read back
and compare too.

Do you have some locking test examples? I'll have to check those too.

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