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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CFI: remove major/minor version check for command set 0x0002
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:59:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4966310C.1010103@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231433317.28362.77.camel@macbook.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:47 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> The NOR Flash memory K8P2815UQB from Samsung uses the major version
>>> number '0', which seems to be unusual but not illegal, IIUC. This
>>> patch removes the major-minor version check to get this Flash memory
>>> supported as well.
>> Instead of removing the test entirely, I'd suggest you augment it with 
>> the manufacturer ID (cfi->mfr and cfi->id).  Or better yet, just use 
>> that information to fix up the version number to something sensible.
> 
> Couldn't you use a quirk to do the latter?

The major/minor version number is not used anywhere else and therefore a
quirk seems to be overkill too me. But we may want to keep the message:

  Unknown Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query version 0.0.

Wolfgang.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-08 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-08 16:07 [PATCH] CFI: remove major/minor version check for command set 0x0002 Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-01-08 16:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-01-08 16:48   ` David Woodhouse
2009-01-08 16:59     ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
2009-01-08 17:42       ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-01-08 18:21         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2009-01-08 18:33           ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-01-09 13:04             ` Wolfgang Grandegger

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