Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: intel-spi: Simulate WRDI command

[Mika Westerberg]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 02:28:30PM +0000, Tudor.Ambarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> + Mika
> 
> Hi, Mika,
> 
> Would you please review the patch from below?

Sure, there is minor comment below.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On 7/22/20 5:01 PM, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
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> > 
> > From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > After spi_nor_write_disable() return code checks were introduced in the
> > spi-nor front end intel-spi backend stopped to work because WRDI was never
> > supported and always failed.
> > 
> > Just pretend it was sucessful and ignore the command itself. HW sequencer
> > shall do the right thing automatically, while with SW sequencer we cannot
> > do it anyway, because the only tool we had was preopcode and it makes no
> > sense for WRDI.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: bce679e5ae3a ("mtd: spi-nor: Check for errors after each Register Operation")
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c
> > index 61d2a0a..134b356 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/intel-spi.c
> > @@ -612,6 +612,14 @@ static int intel_spi_write_reg(struct spi_nor *nor, u8 opcode, const u8 *buf,
> >                 return 0;
> >         }
> > 
> > +       /*
> > +        * We hope that HW sequencer will do the right thing automatically and
> > +        * with the SW seuencer we cannot use preopcode any way, so just ignore
                           ^^^^^^^^
Typo, should be sequencer.

Otherwise looks good to me.