Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Fix direction of the write_sr() transfer

[John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>]

On 04/10/2019 12:31, John Garry wrote:
> On 04/10/2019 11:48, Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com wrote:
>> John, does this fix your problem?
>
> It fixes the problem in the flash_lock -u command no longer errors like
> this:
> root@ubuntu:/home/john# sudo flash_lock -u /dev/mtd0
> flash_lock: error!: could not unlock device: /dev/mtd0
>
> However, with this change, even when the flash is unlocked I cannot
> write, so there is something else wrong. It's probably a bug in my
> under-development driver. I'm looking at it now.

Just to confirm, I tested an earlier HW version with my driver and flash 
lock/unlock function is ok. There seems something wrong with the latest 
HW version which I need to understand.

Anyway:
Tested-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>

Thanks,
John

>
>>
>> On 10/04/2019 01:47 PM, Tudor Ambarus - M18064 wrote:
>>> From: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
>>>
>>> write_sr() sends data to the SPI memory, fix the direction.
>>>
>>> Fixes: b35b9a10362d ("mtd: spi-nor: Move m25p80 code in spi-nor.c")
>>> Reported-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
>>> b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
>>> index 1d8621d43160..7acf4a93b592 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
>>> @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ static int write_sr(struct spi_nor *nor, u8 val)
>>>              SPI_MEM_OP(SPI_MEM_OP_CMD(SPINOR_OP_WRSR, 1),
>>>                     SPI_MEM_OP_NO_ADDR,
>>>                     SPI_MEM_OP_NO_DUMMY,
>>> -                   SPI_MEM_OP_DATA_IN(1, nor->bouncebuf, 1));
>>> +                   SPI_MEM_OP_DATA_OUT(1, nor->bouncebuf, 1));
>>>
>>>          return spi_mem_exec_op(nor->spimem, &op);
>>>      }
>>>
>