linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] mtd: spi-nor: core: use 2 data bytes for template ops

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Date:   Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:36:28 +0200
From:   Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
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>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] mtd: spi-nor: core: use 2 data bytes for template
 ops

Am 2021-05-31 20:17, schrieb Pratyush Yadav:
> The template ops used in spi_nor_spimem_check_pp() and
> spi_nor_spimem_check_readop() currently set the data phase to 1 byte
> long. This is problematic for 8D-8D-8D protocol where odd length data
> phase is invalid since one cycle transfers 2 bytes and odd number of
> bytes would mean half a cycle is left over. This could result in a
> controller rejecting the op as "not supported" even though it actually
> supports the protocol.
> 
> Change the data length to 2 bytes in these templates. One might argue
> that this should only be done for 8D-8D-8D operations but when talking
> about these templates, there is no functional difference between one 
> and
> two bytes, even in STR modes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@...com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>