Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mtd: spi-nor: winbond: Fix protection handling

[Miquel Raynal]

>> The devices do not correctly describe their Status Register layout and
>> protection capabilities (locking flags, TB bit, BP bit configuration).
>> As a result, the spi-nor core rejects protection requests and locking
>> operations fail with -EINVAL, e.g.:
>>
>>   flash_lock -l /dev/mtd29
>>   flash_lock: error!: could not lock device: /dev/mtd29
>>   error 22 (Invalid argument)
>>
>> Update the device flags to match the actual hardware behavior so that
>> locking and unlocking regions work correctly.
>>
>> All changes were validated using flash_lock on the affected devices.
>
> Applied patches 1 and 3 to spi-nor/next. Thanks!
>
> Skipped patch 2 since you say that you haven't got a device to test
> with. I don't have a very strong opinion on this, but I do think we
> should test patches on real hardware just to we get some sanity checking
> for the patch.

Honestly, I am pretty convinced patch 2 cannot make more harm as the
block protection is already badly broken by not being described at
all. Furthermore, for similar chips I have, these bits are relevant, so
I would rather be in favour of going forward with patch 2, because at
most it will just not fix the behaviour as it pretends it does.

My 2cts :)

Miquèl