Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: spinand: micron: Support for all Micron SPI NAND flashes

[Miquel Raynal]

Hello,

"Shivamurthy Shastri (sshivamurthy)" <sshivamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on
Mon, 4 Mar 2019 13:29:21 +0000:

> Hi Boris,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 7:02 PM
> > To: Shivamurthy Shastri (sshivamurthy) <sshivamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-
> > mtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Chuanhong Guo
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> > Frieder <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>; Marek Vasut
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> > Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: spinand: micron: Support for all Micron
> > SPI NAND flashes
> > 
> > Hi Shivamurthy,
> > 
> > On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 11:17:51 +0000
> > "Shivamurthy Shastri (sshivamurthy)" <sshivamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > Driver is redesigned using parameter page to support all the Micron
> > > SPI NAND flashes.  
> > 
> > Do all Micron SPI NANDs really expose a valid ONFI param page? If
> > that's not the case, then relying on ONFi parsing only sounds like a
> > bad idea.  
> 
> Micron SPI NAND datasheet does not confirm to be as ONFI standard.
> However, they all expose parameter page, which I used for development.
> 
> >   
> > >
> > > Parameter page of Micron flashes is similar to ONFI parameter table and
> > > functionality is same, so copied some of the common functions like crc16
> > > and bit_wise_majority from nand_onfi.c.  
> > 
> > Most of the code is generic and does not depend on the spinand layer,
> > plus, we already have ONFI param page parsing code in
> > drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ which you're intentionally duplicating in a
> > version that will not be re-usable by the raw NAND layer even after
> > converting it to use the generic NAND layer.
> > 
> > Please move ONFi parsing code to drivers/mtd/nand/onfi.c and make it
> > generic.  
> 
> As I said before, it is not compliant to ONFI standard, I think it is better not 
> to make it generic.

For what I see it is too similar to copy all that code. I agree with
Boris. If there are some specificities that are not in the ONFI
standard you can do some late changes in the parameter page from
Micron's driver I guess?


Thanks,
MiquÃl