Re: [PATCH] mtd: powernv: Support MTD_NO_ERASE

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

+the DT maintainers

On Tue,  5 Sep 2017 13:23:39 -0700
"William A. Kennington III" <wak@google.com> wrote:

> As of skiboot@ba99af9b149d02438347b055e6e7d6bd15e33551, we now support

I didn't find this commit in mainline.

> adding a device tree entry which marks a flash device as not needing
> erase. This patch adds support for setting MTD_NO_ERASE on powernvflash
> devices which have the property no-erase.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William A. Kennington III <wak@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
> index f5396f26ddb4..fab9f9121b4c 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/powernv_flash.c
> @@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ static int powernv_flash_set_driver_info(struct device *dev,
>  	mtd->name = of_get_property(dev->of_node, "name", NULL);
>  	mtd->type = MTD_NORFLASH;
>  	mtd->flags = MTD_WRITEABLE;
> +	if (of_property_read_bool(dev->of_node, "no-erase"))
> +		mtd->flags |= MTD_NO_ERASE;

I don't see this property document in a DT binding doc, which is
mandatory. Actually, there's no DT bindings doc at all for the
'ibm,opal-flash' device in mainline, is this normal?

>  	mtd->size = size;
>  	mtd->erasesize = erase_size;
>  	mtd->writebufsize = mtd->writesize = 1;