Re: [PATCH 28/39] mtd: nand: denali: move multi NAND fixup code to a helper function

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi Boris,


2016-11-28 1:24 GMT+09:00 Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 03:06:14 +0900
> Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Collect multi NAND fixups into a helper function instead of
>> scattering them in denali_init().
>
> Can you tell me more about this multi-NAND feature?
> The core is already able to detect multi-die NAND chips in a generic
> way,

This is not the case.

> but I fear this is something else, like "put two 8-bits chips on a
> 16bits bus to emulate a single 16bits chip".

Yes, it is.

(I have never used this controller like that.
But, I am pretty sure it is
from the code and the
Denali's User Guide mentions such usage.)


Just in case, I will clearly rephrase the comment block like follows in v2:

        /*
         * Support for multi device:
         * When the IP configuration is x16 capable and two x8 chips are
         * connected in parallel, DEVICES_CONNECTED should be set to 2.
         * In this case, the core framework knows nothing about this fact,
         * so we should tell it the _logical_ pagesize and anything necessary.
         */




> If that's a case, and this feature is actually used, then it's a bad
> idea IMHO.
> For example, how do you handle the case where one block is bad on a
> chip but not on the other? And I fear this is not the only problem
> with this approach :-/.

As you expect, if one block is bad,
the correspond block on the other chip can not be used.



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada