Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Report platform enforced SPI flash write protection

[Mika Westerberg]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 02:37:59PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon Aug 31, 2026 at 2:05 PM CEST, Tobias Jakobsen via B4 Relay wrote:
> > Patch 2 adds the only user, spi-intel, which already computes protected
> > range state at probe but has had no way to expose it since the SPI MEM
> > conversion removed its visibility of the MTD device.
> 
> Where was it removed, though?

After the SPI MEM conversion the driver is a regular SPI driver so it can
only use spi_new_device() to add and configure the SPI-NOR chip (via
platform data, struct flash_platform_data). Prior this it was creating the
MTD device itself.