Re: [PATCH v9 6/6] mtd: spi-nor: add support for Macronix Octal flash

Tudor Ambarus
2024-09-24T07:19:01Z

On 9/24/24 7:36 AM, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
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> On 9/24/24 7:26 AM, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
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>> On 9/24/24 4:25 AM, Alvin Zhou wrote:
>>> Hi Tudor,
>>>
>>> Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org> 於 2024年9月23日 週一 下午2:54寫道：
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Alvin,
>>>>
>>>> I quickly skimmed over the previous 5 patches and they are looking fine.
>>>>
>>>> I don't get this patch however.
>>>>
>>>> On 7/18/24 4:46 AM, AlvinZhou wrote:
>>>>> From: AlvinZhou <alvinzhou@mxic.com.tw>
>>>>>
>>>>> Adding Manufacture ID 0xC2 in last of ID table because of
>>>>> Octal Flash need manufacturer fixup for enabling/disabling
>>>>> Octal DTR mode.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: JaimeLiao <jaimeliao@mxic.com.tw>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: AlvinZhou <alvinzhou@mxic.com.tw>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/macronix.c | 4 +++-
>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/macronix.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/macronix.c
>>>>> index f039819a5252..1a8ccebdfe0e 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/macronix.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/macronix.c
>>>>> @@ -200,7 +200,9 @@ static const struct flash_info macronix_nor_parts[] = {
>>>>> .name = "mx25l3255e",
>>>>> .size = SZ_4M,
>>>>> .no_sfdp_flags = SECT_4K,
>>>>> - }
>>>>> + },
>>>>> + /* Need the manufacturer fixups, Keep this last */
>>>>> + { .id = SNOR_ID(0xc2) }
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you please elaborate why you need just the manufacturer id here? I
>>>> would have expected to see a specific flash entry instead.
>>>
>>> Grateful to Michael for the valuable suggestion. This addition of the
>>> Macronix manufacturer ID enables the fixup functions such as
>>> macronix_nor_set_octal_dtr to be executed without the need to
>>> create separate ID entries for each Octal DTR NOR Flash in the
>>> flash_info.
>>>
>>
>> Ah, nice. Okay then. I'm going to review the rest of the patches. They
>> look promising ;).
>
> ah, but then you'll always have a matched ID, so you break the generic
> flash probing for macronix. Is that correct?

Answering myself: it's fine. Generic flash probe just fills a name,
which we don't really care about.