RE: [PATCH 1/7] spi: add slave device size in spi_device struct

[Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@nxp.com>]

Hi Lothar,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lothar Waßmann [mailto:LW@KARO-electronics.de]
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 5:28 PM
> To: Yogesh Narayan Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@nxp.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] spi: add slave device size in spi_device struct
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:59:58 +0530 Yogesh Gaur wrote:
> > Add 'size' data variable in spi_device struct.
> > This is to save the size of the connected slave device.
> >
> > After slave device scan, spi_nor_scan, size being assigned to this
> > from MTD layer.
> >
> > SFDP read is being requested before completion of spi_nor_scan()
> > routine, thus populate device size before making read request to the
> > SPI controller.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yogesh Gaur <yogeshnarayan.gaur@nxp.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c  | 6 ++++++
> > drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 2 ++
> >  include/linux/spi/spi.h       | 2 ++
> >  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> > b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c index fe260cc..6c7ad86 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> > @@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ static ssize_t m25p80_read(struct spi_nor *nor,
> loff_t from, size_t len,
> >  	/* convert the dummy cycles to the number of bytes */
> >  	op.dummy.nbytes = (nor->read_dummy * op.dummy.buswidth) / 8;
> >
> > +	/* for case of SFDP header read commands, populate spi device size */
> > +	if (flash->spimem->spi->size == 0)
> > +		flash->spimem->spi->size = nor->mtd.size;
> > +
> If the 'size' is an spimem specific variable it should be added to the spi_mem
> struct rather than the spi_device struct.

Sure, would move 'size' from struct spi_device to the struct spi_mem.

--
Regards
Yogesh Gaur.

> 
> Lothar Waßmann