Re: [PATCH 03/11] spi: Add a driver for the Freescale/NXP QuadSPI controller

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>]

Hi Frieder,

On Wed, 30 May 2018 15:14:32 +0200
Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@exceet.de> wrote:

> +
> +static const char *fsl_qspi_get_name(struct spi_mem *mem)
> +{
> +	struct fsl_qspi *q = spi_controller_get_devdata(mem->spi->master);
> +	struct device *dev = &mem->spi->dev;
> +	const char *name;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * In order to keep mtdparts compatible with the old MTD driver at
> +	 * mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c, we set a custom name derived from the
> +	 * platform_device of the controller.
> +	 */
> +	if (of_get_available_child_count(q->dev->of_node) == 1)
> +		name = dev_name(q->dev);
> +	else
> +		name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL,
> +				      "%s-%d", dev_name(q->dev),
> +				      mem->spi->chip_select);
> +
> +	if (!name) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "failed to get memory for custom flash name\n");
> +		return dev_name(q->dev);

Hm, not sure that's what we want. We should probably fail when the
allocation fails.

How about letting ->get_name() return an error pointer or NULL in case
of error. With the other I made suggestion in my review of patch 1
(calling ->get_name() at probe time) you could refuse to probe the
device when ->get_name() fails.

> +	}
> +
> +	return name;
> +}
> +

Regards,

Boris