Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] mtd: spi-nor: Disable Micron flash HW protection

From: Bean Huo 霍斌斌 (beanhuo)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 08:40:48 EST


> From: Yunhui Cui <B56489@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>,
> <han.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> <linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <yao.yuan@xxxxxxx>, Yunhui
> Cui
> <yunhui.cui@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] mtd: spi-nor: Disable Micron flash HW
> protection
> Message-ID: <1456988044-37061-4-git-send-email-B56489@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> From: Yunhui Cui <yunhui.cui@xxxxxxx>
>
> For Micron family ,The status register write enable/disable bit, provides
> hardware data protection for the device.
> When the enable/disable bit is set to 1, the status register nonvolatile bits
> become read-only and the WRITE STATUS REGISTER operation will not
> execute.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui <yunhui.cui@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> index ed0c19c..917f814 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>
> #define SPI_NOR_MAX_ID_LEN 6
> #define SPI_NOR_MAX_ADDR_WIDTH 4
> +#define SPI_NOR_MICRON_WRITE_ENABLE 0x7f
>
> struct flash_info {
> char *name;
> @@ -1238,6 +1239,14 @@ int spi_nor_scan(struct spi_nor *nor, const char
> *name, enum read_mode mode)
> write_sr(nor, 0);
> }
>
> + if (JEDEC_MFR(info) == SNOR_MFR_MICRON) {
> + ret = read_sr(nor);
> + ret &= SPI_NOR_MICRON_WRITE_ENABLE;
> +
For Micron the status register write enable/disable bit, its default/factory value is disable.
Can here first check ,then program?
> + write_enable(nor);
> + write_sr(nor, ret);
> + }
> +
> if (!mtd->name)
> mtd->name = dev_name(dev);
> mtd->priv = nor;