From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754781AbaEVLwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2014 07:52:22 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f171.google.com ([209.85.223.171]:60786 "EHLO mail-ie0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754754AbaEVLwV (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2014 07:52:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:52:16 +0100 From: Lee Jones To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christophe Kerello , computersforpeace@gmail.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] mtd: st_spi_fsm: Provide mask to obtain correct boot device pins Message-ID: <20140522115216.GV6679@lee--X1> References: <1400757848-18075-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <1400757848-18075-10-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <4231397.Nn7Rm5jh2O@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4231397.Nn7Rm5jh2O@wuerfel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Thursday 22 May 2014 12:24:07 Lee Jones wrote: > > + /* Mask to apply on boot_device_reg */ > > + ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "st,boot-device-msk", &boot_device_msk); > > + if (ret) > > + goto boot_device_fail; > > + > > > > The binding defines this property as "optional", but the driver fails > here if it's not provided. I suggest you add a default value here so you > can deal with existing dts. The default should be documented in > the binding as well. The property is optional. It doesn't fail completely, merely skips the boot device check and falls back to using SPI. I can update the documentation to this effect though, no problem. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog