linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2016 14:37:55 +0300
From:	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Peter Tyser <ptyser@...-inc.com>, key.seong.lim@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash
 controller

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:32:43PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Add support for the SPI serial flash host controller found on many Intel
> CPUs including Baytrail and Braswell. The SPI serial flash controller is
> used to access BIOS and other platform specific information. By default the
> driver exposes a single read-only MTD device but with a module parameter
> "writeable=1" the MTD device can be made read-write which makes it possible
> to upgrade BIOS directly from Linux.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>

Brian,

It looks like v4.8-rc1 changed struct spi_nor read/write callbacks to
return number of bytes read/written and also dropped retlen from the
arguments.

Is it fine if I send an updated series with that fixed or do you want to
review this one first?

Thanks.