Message ID | 20211220164625.9400-1-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive) |
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Series | mtd: spi-nor / spi / MFD: Convert intel-spi to SPI MEM | expand |
Hi Tudor and Mark, On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 07:46:22PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Based on discussion on the patch I sent some time ago here: > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2021-June/086867.html > > it turns out that the preferred way to deal with the SPI flash controller > drivers is through SPI MEM which is part of Linux SPI subsystem. > > This series does that for the intel-spi driver. This also renames the > driver to follow the convention used in the SPI subsystem. The first patch > improves the write protection handling to be slightly more safer. The > following two patches do the conversion itself. Note the Intel SPI flash > controller only allows commands such as read, write and so on and it > internally uses whatever addressing etc. it figured from the SFDP on the > flash device. Any chance to get this one merged? Thanks!
On 1/11/22 8:49 AM, Mika Westerberg wrote: > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe > > Hi Tudor and Mark, Hi! > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 07:46:22PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Based on discussion on the patch I sent some time ago here: >> >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2021-June/086867.html >> >> it turns out that the preferred way to deal with the SPI flash controller >> drivers is through SPI MEM which is part of Linux SPI subsystem. >> >> This series does that for the intel-spi driver. This also renames the >> driver to follow the convention used in the SPI subsystem. The first patch >> improves the write protection handling to be slightly more safer. The >> following two patches do the conversion itself. Note the Intel SPI flash >> controller only allows commands such as read, write and so on and it >> internally uses whatever addressing etc. it figured from the SFDP on the >> flash device. > > Any chance to get this one merged? > Sure, it's a candidate for 5.18. I don't have anything against the move to SPI, but I didn't get the chance to go through your series. Will try to do it. Cheers, ta