Re: [PATCH 0/3] mtd: Make sure UBIFS does not do multi-pass page programming on flashes that don't support it

[Vignesh Raghavendra]

On 11/1/20 3:14 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:24 PM Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20201005153138.6437-1-p.yadav@xxxxxx/
>>
>> Ping. Any comments on the series?
> 
> From the UBIFS point of view I'd like to avoid as many device specific
> settings as possible.
> We check already for NOR flash, checking for NOR *and* SPI_NOR_NO_MULTI_PASS_PP
> feels a bit clumsy.
> 
> Tudor, what do you think about SPI_NOR_NO_MULTI_PASS_PP?
> This kind of NOR seems to be a little NAND'ish. Maybe we can hide this detail
> in the mtd framework?
> 

Agree with Richard. I don't see need for SPI_NOR_NO_MULTI_PASS_PP. From
MTD point of view setting mtd->writesize to be equal to pagesize should
be enough. Its upto clients of MTD devices to ensure there is no multi
pass programming within a "writesize" block.

If this is not clear in the current documentation of struct mtd, then
that can be updated.

Regards
Vignesh