Re: [PATCH 03/30] mtd: spi-nor: winbond: Stop filling the .name entry

From: Michael Walle

Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 12:04:42 EST


On Fri May 29, 2026 at 5:22 PM CEST, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> This is a legacy field, it is often incorrectly filled and will soon
> become very incorrect due to IDs being reused.

And I thought winbond is doing better... So if you have a contact
there, please suggest they are putting a table with a unique
identifier per chip there. So we can use that to do fixups.

> Replace the names with a comment above the entry with the newly instated
> naming scheme to indicate what chips are covered by each entry.

This is exported via sysfs, so this could be a regression.

Not sure..

-michael

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