Re: [PATCH 0/2] Uniform way to pass a NAND ID table to the core

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 20:19:00 +0200
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
> 
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:17:37 +0200, Boris Brezillon
> <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Miquel,
> > 
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:12:33 +0100
> > Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > As part of the work of migrating all the drivers to nand_scan(), and
> > > because nand_scan() does not provide a way to pass any ID table, create
> > > a field in NAND chip so a controller driver can expose its ID table to
> > > the core through it and stop using the last parameter of
> > > nand_scan_ident() for that.    
> > 
> > I'm not a big fan of adding yet another field to the nand_chip struct.
> > Could we instead create a nand_scan_with_ids() function that takes an
> > extra ID table in argument and then make nand_scan() a wrapper around
> > this new function?
> > 
> > int nand_scan_with_ids(struct mtd_info *mtd, int max_chips,
> > 		       struct nand_flash_dev *ids);
> > 
> > static inline int nand_scan(struct mtd_info *mtd, int max_chips)
> > {
> > 	return nand_scan_with_ids(mtd, max_chips, NULL);
> > }  
> 
> Sure I can do that, but I found too impacting the fact that we should
> patch all the drivers to call nand_scan_with_ids() from your example.

Nope we don't have to do that, see the nand_scan() wrapper proposed
above.

> 
> I added another exported function called nand_scan_with_ids() but
> nand_scan() is still visible so that I only have to patch one driver.
> 
> You'll tell me what you think.

That's exactly what I suggested, so I think we're good ;-).