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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Daniel Gutson <daniel@eclypsium.com>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>,
	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	Alex Bazhaniuk <alex@eclypsium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module argument to control whether intel-spi-pci attempts to turn the SPI flash chip writeable
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 16:05:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803130532.GY1375436@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFmMkTHSjQZJNzvUzLHHJ7sUTVX4BV6TwB=P8EO-HNk_cv8RKg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 09:58:23AM -0300, Daniel Gutson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 7:27 AM Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:18:12AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 10:57, Mika Westerberg
> > > <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > I think instead of this we should simply make it so that the driver
> > > > never tries to make the chip writable.
> > >
> > > I think this is a good idea, but I wasn't sure if it was an acceptable
> > > behaviour change. Should the driver still try to set BCR_WPD when
> > > writing an image (i.e. defer the setting of write enable until later),
> > > or just not set the BCR register at all? I think your last comment was
> > > the latter, but wanted to check.
> >
> > I would say not set it at all. I think it was (my) mistake to set it in
> > the first place.
> 
> Do you want me to remove the module parameter from intel-spi too and
> do the same?

No, I think that should still be left there. Then by default it is
read-only and you can only enable writing if the BIOS allows it and that
the user actually requested it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-24 21:28 [PATCH] Module argument to control whether intel-spi-pci attempts to turn the SPI flash chip writeable Daniel Gutson
2020-07-25  5:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]   ` <CAFmMkTE_dT9+WJYyb19uQ_HmgJWZSARBy6PveheQJk++NuGbkQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-07-26  7:17     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]       ` <CAFmMkTFzGfFDrJrdgHztzLK2K-zBWy6T2Tv+G4-rrbVpbahkgg@mail.gmail.com>
2020-07-27 15:15         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 15:31           ` Daniel Gutson
2020-07-29 20:54             ` Daniel Gutson
2020-07-30  5:31               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]                 ` <CAFmMkTHXjfG7zMr0i_h65PvjAe4opPgvzdABH8W1EUGOmcA4Zg@mail.gmail.com>
2020-07-30 14:09                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30 14:18                     ` Daniel Gutson
2020-07-30 14:20                       ` Daniel Gutson
2020-08-03  9:57 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-08-03 10:18   ` Richard Hughes
2020-08-03 10:27     ` Mika Westerberg
2020-08-03 12:58       ` Daniel Gutson
2020-08-03 13:05         ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2020-08-03 13:17           ` Daniel Gutson

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