Hi Tudor,

Le 08/06/2018 à 15:48, Tudor Ambarus a écrit :
> The commit message became wall-of-text, my feeling is that I heavily
> reworked the code so I changed the author. If someone thinks differently,
> please say and I'll change back to the initial authorship. What I've done:

It's obvious that you're the author of the patch so I'm totally fine with
this change :)

Best regards,

Cyrille

> 
> - minimize the amount of erase() calls by using the best sequence of erase
>   type commands depending on alignment.
> 
> - build the list of best fitted erase commands to be executed once we
>   validate that the erase can be performed.
> 
> - add improvements on how the erase map is handled. The regions are
>   consecutive in the address space, walk through the regions incrementally.
> 
> - speed up finding the best erase type command. Order erase types by
>   size, iterate them from the biggest to the smallest and stop when best
>   fitted command is found.
> 
> - determine at init if there are erase types that can erase the entire
>   memory
> 
> - fix the erase size in overlaid regions. S25FS512S states that 'if a sector
>   erase command is applied to a 256KB range that is overlaid by 4KB secors,
>   the overlaid 4kB sectors are not affected by the erase'
> 
> Backward compatibility test done on MX25L25673G.
> 
> Changes since RFC PATCH:
> - build a list of erase commands to be executed once we validate
>   that the erase can be performed
> - fix walking through the address space in overlaid regions
> - drop wall-of-text description commit message, change author
> 
> 
> Tudor Ambarus (1):
>   mtd: spi-nor: add support to non-uniform SFDP SPI NOR flash memories
> 
>  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 357 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h   | 108 +++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 451 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 

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