From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752899AbbETLmS (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2015 07:42:18 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:48502 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751682AbbETLmR (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2015 07:42:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 12:41:58 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: Kukjin Kim , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Olof Johansson , Doug Anderson , David Hendricks , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20150520114158.GF21577@sirena.org.uk> References: <1432042454-19234-1-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> <1432042454-19234-2-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> <20150520101318.GB21577@sirena.org.uk> <555C5F65.7010204@collabora.co.uk> <20150520103746.GD21577@sirena.org.uk> <555C6E51.5030601@collabora.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2FkSFaIQeDFoAt0B" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <555C6E51.5030601@collabora.co.uk> X-Cookie: Positively no smoking. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.94.161 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] spi: spidev: Add Google SPI flash compatible string X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --2FkSFaIQeDFoAt0B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 01:21:53PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > The ChromeOS user-space just uses flashrom to send a raw stream of bytes > via spidev to the SPI NOR flash chip. There is drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c > but AFAIU there are some limitations when interfacing the flash through > the MTD layer, for example there isn't a way to set the SPI flash write > protection through MTD. But I'll do some investigation before re-spinning > the patches. OK, that's a bit concerning - perhaps what's needed here is to extend MTD and so on (if only to find some way for it to coexist with spidev for the time being)? > BTW, the other "rohm,dh2228fv" compatible string in spidev added by commit > 8fad805bdc52 ("spi: spidev: Add Rohm DH2228FV DAC compatible string"), also > does not have a documented DT binding so that should be fixed as well. wv :) --2FkSFaIQeDFoAt0B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVXHMFAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQu6IH/232pUm3HWOrIjFBSL1rduzT eTGGZDu2m0jYeGqMdtdSX4uutH+CTi3MKl2jRBzKAa1HRGqhAnBQkEZ6H9n9ZIIx j+R0wDbeiSJ8MqxPemqb1+2zSXsPz2tgeQdDrTBJxJJrSTsP1xoCe2K10uwqRvcf +6lrbG89Bjq5LWoLduSBJv4PKCqYTgZxVzyQPu4SOj3K9PuSqoa7UpJKrjMRTsGX +EV4b3lqZb2hADZF8zUynuH9Ddma6wFqYvZZsZ6Yxxo83GJcn4VkbV9+J2kbijmv 5cN9VhjFiOUy7Ari4xx6ivx1Z+kxJSMjblHp9gqJL8ivOfDVrAiVIMk7ZkbJ15I= =4o9R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2FkSFaIQeDFoAt0B--