On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 10:24:47AM +0100, Frieder Schrempf wrote: > Hi, > > On 10.01.23 12:58, Frieder Schrempf wrote: > > From: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevets...@iopsys.eu> > > > > 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. > > > > This is a rework of Chuanhong Guo <gch981...@gmail.com> patch > > submitted to linux kernel > > > > Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevets...@iopsys.eu> > > Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schre...@kontron.de> > > +Cc: Jagan, Tom > > Who is supposed to pick up these patches? Some of them have been around > for some months (before I resent them). > > There is no maintainer for drivers/mtd/spinand/ and no maintainer for > drivers/mtd/ in general. > > In Patchwork Jagan got assigned, but the get_maintainer.pl script didn't > even add him to Cc, of course. > > Any ideas how to proceed?
We don't have anyone dedicated to that area, yes, sadly. I've added Michael and Dario as they've also been doing mtd-but-not-spi work of late to see if they're interested. Or since you've long been working here, would you like to more formally maintain the area? Thanks! -- Tom
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