Re: mtd, nand, omap2: parse cmdline partition fail

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 08:13:15AM +0100, Frans Klaver wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Brian Norris
> <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:42:06AM +0100, Heiko Schocher wrote:
> >> >>But wondering, if there are two or more identical nand chips in the
> >> >>system, they will have the same mtd->name ... which seems buggy to me...
> >> >
> >> >Agree.
> >>
> >> Good, so we must fix it ;-)
> >
> > Yeah, that's a bad problem. Most people only plan for one chip and then
> > realize they need 2 later. nand_base should probably support something
> > to do this easily. Unfortunately, making a change like that could cause
> > some problems with cmdline naming across kernel versions, if we start
> > changing the convention for some drivers...(do we consider the MTD name
> > part of the ABI?)
> 
> I would expect a name to be just a name; something parsable by humans.
> By definition that cannot be an ABI. On the other hand, maybe it has
> grown to become part of the ABI.

So far, we've tried not to break it if possible. Perhaps if we come up
with a better solution for automatically naming/numbering chips attached
to the same device/controller, we can test out whether it hurts to
change.

> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> > index 89d811e7b04a..185dc36c687f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
> > @@ -592,6 +592,15 @@ int mtd_device_parse_register(struct mtd_info *mtd, const char * const *types,
> >         struct mtd_partitions parsed;
> >         int ret;
> >
> > +       if (mtd->dev.parent) {
> > +               if (!mtd->owner && mtd->dev.parent->driver)
> > +                       mtd->owner = mtd->dev.parent->driver->owner;
> > +               if (!mtd->name)
> > +                       mtd->name = dev_name(mtd->dev.parent);
> > +       } else {
> > +               pr_debug("mtd device won't show a device symlink in sysfs\n");
> > +       }
> > +
> >         memset(&parsed, 0, sizeof(parsed));
> >
> >         ret = parse_mtd_partitions(mtd, types, &parsed, parser_data);
> 
> This was the first thing I thought of when this issue was brought up.
> If you do this, do you still need the chunk of code you copied from in
> add_mtd_device()? Since we fill in these things on the master, I
> wouldn't think we do.

I guess we don't need the code in add_mtd_device().

I'll send a patch against linux-mtd.git shortly (essentially 4.4-rc1).

Brian