From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>,
Michael Walle <mwalle@kernel.org>,
Takahiro Kuwano <takahiro.kuwano@infineon.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Unprepare legacy controllers upon RWW wait interruption
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:02:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o6f7mzbq.fsf@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0d2710a-2a67-40e0-aacb-5d18742cea76@linaro.org> (Tudor Ambarus's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:52:48 +0300")
On 12/08/2026 at 12:52:48 +03, Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 8/11/26 6:56 PM, Miquel Raynal wrote:
>> All the parallel locking helpers (spi_nor_prep_and_lock(),
>> spi_nor_prep_and_lock_pe() and spi_nor_prep_and_lock_rd()) call
>> spi_nor_prep() then wait with a killable sleep. If the sleep gets
>> killed, we leave the controller in its prepared state.
>>
>> Call ->unprepare() in these cases.
>
>
> We don't even care about SPI NOR controllers. I stopped adding/accepting
> new support for them few years ago, so that we encourage people to update
> the drivers to use SPI MEM.
Yeah, totally agreed.
> The alternative is to drop prep unprep entirely.
That's indeed what we aim for, but in order to "fix" that report, the
current solution is to call ->unprepare(). Hopefully we can remove them
at some point.
>
> Anyway, all good, regardless the path chosen:
>
> Acked-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
Thanks,
Miquèl
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-11 15:56 [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Unprepare legacy controllers upon RWW wait interruption Miquel Raynal
2026-08-12 9:44 ` Michael Walle
2026-08-12 10:05 ` Miquel Raynal
2026-08-12 10:33 ` Michael Walle
2026-08-12 9:52 ` Tudor Ambarus
2026-08-12 10:02 ` Miquel Raynal [this message]
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