linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] mtd: nand: spi: rework detect procedure for different read id op

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Message-ID: <20200311081918.0f2c64c2@xps13>
Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:19:18 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@...il.com>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mtd: nand: spi: rework detect procedure for
 different read id op

Hi Chuanhong,

Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote on Tue, 10 Mar 2020
19:33:38 +0100:

> On Sat, 2020-02-08 at 07:43:50 UTC, Chuanhong Guo wrote:
> > Currently there are 3 different variants of read_id implementation:
> > 1. opcode only. Found in GD5FxGQ4xF.
> > 2. opcode + 1 addr byte. Found in GD5GxGQ4xA/E
> > 3. opcode + 1 dummy byte. Found in other currently supported chips.
> > 
> > Original implementation was for variant 1 and let detect function
> > of chips with variant 2 and 3 to ignore the first byte. This isn't
> > robust:
> > 
> > 1. For chips of variant 2, if SPI master doesn't keep MOSI low
> > during read, chip will get a random id offset, and the entire id
> > buffer will shift by that offset, causing detect failure.
> > 
> > 2. For chips of variant 1, if it happens to get a devid that equals
> > to manufacture id of variant 2 or 3 chips, it'll get incorrectly
> > detected.
> > 
> > This patch reworks detect procedure to address problems above. New
> > logic do detection for all variants separatedly, in 1-2-3 order.
> > Since all current detect methods do exactly the same id matching
> > procedure, unify them into core.c and remove detect method from
> > manufacture_ops.
> > 
> > Tested on GD5F1GQ4UAYIG and W25N01GVZEIG.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@...il.com>  
> 
> Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

I also changed the prefix to "mtd: spinand:".

Thanks,
Miquèl