Re: [PATCH v2 20/53] mtd: nand: denali: do not set mtd->name

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:32:24 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:

> Hi Boris,
> 
> 2017-03-28 0:31 GMT+09:00 Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>:
> > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:07:27 +0900
> > Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> This will be filled by nand_scan_ident() later.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Changes in v2: None
> >>
> >>  drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c | 1 -
> >>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
> >> index 3badb1d..1706975 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c
> >> @@ -1495,7 +1495,6 @@ int denali_init(struct denali_nand_info *denali)
> >>
> >>       /* now that our ISR is registered, we can enable interrupts */
> >>       denali_set_intr_modes(denali, true);
> >> -     mtd->name = "denali-nand";  
> >
> > Are you sure this is safe to do that? When mtd->name is NULL, the core
> > takes the parent name, and in the denali_dt case it's not "denali-nand",
> > which means you're breaking mtdparts compat.  
> 
> How big impact is this?

Breaking boot on some platforms (those defining partitions through
mtdparts= cmdline parameter), which is not negligible :P.

> 
> I think a bootloader could give mtdparts=denali-nand:...
> but, now we are able to have partitions in DT nodes.

Just because you have a new way to describe partitions (using DT) does
not mean people are not using the old one (mtdparts= parameter).