Re: [PATCH v2 20/53] mtd: nand: denali: do not set mtd->name

[Boris Brezillon]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:07:27 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This will be filled by nand_scan_ident() later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
> index 3badb1d..1706975 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
> @@ -1495,7 +1495,6 @@ int denali_init(struct denali_nand_info *denali)
>  
>  	/* now that our ISR is registered, we can enable interrupts */
>  	denali_set_intr_modes(denali, true);
> -	mtd->name = "denali-nand";

Are you sure this is safe to do that? When mtd->name is NULL, the core
takes the parent name, and in the denali_dt case it's not "denali-nand",
which means you're breaking mtdparts compat.

>  	nand_set_flash_node(chip, denali->dev->of_node);
>  
>  	/* register the driver with the NAND core subsystem */