linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] mtd: Make sure UBIFS does not do multi-pass page programming on flashes that don't support it

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Message-ID: <CAFLxGvxc=EqBStzLz3ApwYDomKMe=WeK22ohfPQs1WrMCsaVQg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 31 Oct 2020 22:44:43 +0100
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:     Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@...com>
Cc:     Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mtd: Make sure UBIFS does not do multi-pass page
 programming on flashes that don't support it

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:24 PM Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@...com> wrote:
> > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20201005153138.6437-1-p.yadav@ti.com/
>
> Ping. Any comments on the series?

>From the UBIFS point of view I'd like to avoid as many device specific
settings as possible.
We check already for NOR flash, checking for NOR *and* SPI_NOR_NO_MULTI_PASS_PP
feels a bit clumsy.

Tudor, what do you think about SPI_NOR_NO_MULTI_PASS_PP?
This kind of NOR seems to be a little NAND'ish. Maybe we can hide this detail
in the mtd framework?

-- 
Thanks,
//richard