From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: "Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>, "Tom Rini" <trini@konsulko.com>
Cc: "Patrick DELAUNAY" <patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com>,
u-boot@lists.denx.de, "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>,
"Jagan Teki" <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>,
"Christophe KERELLO" <christophe.kerello@foss.st.com>,
"Miquel Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
"Priyanka Jain" <priyanka.jain@nxp.com>,
"Patrice Chotard" <patrice.chotard@foss.st.com>,
"Heiko Schocher" <hs@denx.de>, "Simon Glass" <sjg@chromium.org>,
"Vignesh R" <vigneshr@ti.com>,
"U-Boot STM32" <uboot-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] mtd: spi: nor: force mtd name to "nor%d"
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 05:06:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <afcc3c67-221e-5f01-7d2d-872866878bda@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210925021200.7d5b62e2@thinkpad>
On 9/25/21 2:12 AM, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:09:15 +0200
> Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
>
>> I have a feeling the discussion is again banking toward "mtdparts" and
>> "DT", which really is a solved problem, or at least we agreed upon the
>> solution.
>
> I was trying to explain to Patrick how he can convert the ST board so
> that the mtd partitions will be defined in DT and board code won't need
> mtdids if he also converts to distro boot correctly.
>
>> The patch is trying to fix MTDIDS and their look up in
>> get_mtd_device_nm(). This is all U-Boot stuff, it has nothing to do with
>> passing mtd partitions to Linux at all.
>
> The solution here is to get rid of MTDIDS also. But I guess this will
> take some time, so it does make sense for get_mtd_device_nm() to
> return the same device as previously when given argument "norN".
I'd say MTDIDS is user ABI, so we shouldn't break it until there is
clear way forward. (yes, I agree with pretty much all you are saying, I
just want to make this clear)
> The reason why I put SPI NOR name into mtd->name was because otherwise
> the `mtd list` command did not print that name anywhere (since it
> doesn't know how, because that SPI-NOR data are private for the
> jedec_spi_nor driver).
>
> Since
> - every mtd device has mtd->type, for NOR flash this is MTD_NORFLASH
> - we can iterate mtd devices in order they were registered
> (mtd_for_each_device does this)
> we can easily implement a function
> get_mtd_device_by_type_and_id()
No, we cannot. We have to make sure the Parallel NORs go first, SPI NORs
second, otherwise we break the old ABI. That's what Patrick is valiantly
battling here.
> that, when given string "norN" will find the N-th mtd device of type
> MTD_NORFLASH.
>
> This function could than be called from get_mtd_device_nm() if
> everything failed, or in some other way.
>
> Tom, Marek, Patrick, what do you think?
Maybe we should go with a simpler counting approach first (at least for
this release) and then improve on that ? That would give us some time to
think the solution through ... at which point I wouldn't even be opposed
to passing full DT path to ubi part, something like:
ubi part /soc/controller@0x1234/flash@0/partition@1
or something like that. The above is always stable and unique because it
is hardware path, it does get flushed right down to get_mtd_device_nm(),
and it basically skips MTDIDS. With DT aliases you can probably write
some shorthand for a long HW path.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-25 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 16:29 [PATCH v4 0/2] mtd: spi: nor: force mtd name to "nor%d" Patrick Delaunay
2021-09-22 16:29 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] mtd: cfi_flash: use cfi_flash_num_flash_banks only when supported Patrick Delaunay
2021-09-28 18:45 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-22 16:29 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] mtd: spi: nor: force mtd name to "nor%d" Patrick Delaunay
2021-09-28 18:45 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-22 17:29 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] " Marek Behún
2021-09-22 18:24 ` Marek Vasut
2021-09-22 18:42 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-22 19:08 ` Marek Behún
2021-09-22 19:12 ` Marek Vasut
2021-09-22 19:05 ` Marek Behún
2021-09-22 19:23 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-22 19:39 ` Marek Vasut
2021-09-22 19:24 ` Marek Vasut
2021-09-22 19:41 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-22 19:42 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-22 19:46 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-22 19:56 ` Marek Vasut
2021-09-22 20:00 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-23 1:32 ` Marek Vasut
2021-09-23 9:04 ` Patrick DELAUNAY
2021-09-24 18:22 ` Tom Rini
2021-09-24 19:25 ` Marek Behún
2021-09-24 20:09 ` Marek Vasut
2021-09-25 0:12 ` Marek Behún
2021-09-25 3:06 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
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