Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtd: spi-nor: Export SFDP access to sysfs

[Alexander Williams]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 8:51 AM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am 2021-04-28 17:37, schrieb Alexander Williams:
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:58 AM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Alexander,
> >>
> >> Am 2021-04-28 07:27, schrieb Alexander Williams:
> >> > Add the ability to specify a technology-specific attribute_group, and
> >> > expose the SFDP through spi-nor's private group. This enables user
> >> > space
> >> > to have full access to the contents of the SFDP, so all information is
> >> > available without regard for whether the kernel supports parsing it.
> >>
> >> Please see:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20210318092406.5340-1-michael@xxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer! Sorry I didn't see that patch series already:
> > My search
> > skills need some work... In any case, there's no good reason for me to
> > duplicate
> > work.
> >
> > I should probably comment on that series directly, but I'll note that
> > one thing
> > I tried to do with the sysfs attributes here was avoid racing with user
> > space.
> > The uevent is suppressed until all the related files are created in
> > sysfs. See
> > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/06/26/how-to-create-a-sysfs-file-correctly/
> > for
> > Greg's explanation of a scenario.
>
> Sure, reviews and remarks are always welcome. Btw. what is patch 2/3 and
> 3/3?
> I couldn't find it on the LKML.

There are none. I goofed and forgot to fix up the subject line. The two commits
that followed merely added quick-and-dirty SFDP support to intel-spi.c to enable
testing on one of the platforms I had lying around.

--Alex