Subject: [PATCH 1/7] spi: add slave device size in spi_device struct

From: [email-masked] (Boris Brezillon)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 10:36:00 +0200

Hi Yogesh,

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 04:47:25 +0000
Yogesh Narayan Gaur <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi Lothar,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lothar Wa?mann [mailto:LW at KARO-electronics.de]
> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 5:28 PM
> > To: Yogesh Narayan Gaur <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org; boris.brezillon at bootlin.com;
> > marek.vasut at gmail.com; linux-spi at vger.kernel.org;
> > devicetree at vger.kernel.org; mark.rutland at arm.com; robh at kernel.org; linux-
> > kernel at vger.kernel.org; frieder.schrempf at exceet.de;
> > computersforpeace at gmail.com; shawnguo at kernel.org; linux-arm-
> > kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] spi: add slave device size in spi_device struct
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:59:58 +0530 Yogesh Gaur wrote:  
> > > Add 'size' data variable in spi_device struct.
> > > This is to save the size of the connected slave device.
> > >
> > > After slave device scan, spi_nor_scan, size being assigned to this
> > > from MTD layer.
> > >
> > > SFDP read is being requested before completion of spi_nor_scan()
> > > routine, thus populate device size before making read request to the
> > > SPI controller.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yogesh Gaur <[email-masked]>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c  | 6 ++++++
> > > drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 2 ++
> > >  include/linux/spi/spi.h       | 2 ++
> > >  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> > > b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c index fe260cc..6c7ad86 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> > > @@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ static ssize_t m25p80_read(struct spi_nor *nor,  
> > loff_t from, size_t len,  
> > >  	/* convert the dummy cycles to the number of bytes */
> > >  	op.dummy.nbytes = (nor->read_dummy * op.dummy.buswidth) / 8;
> > >
> > > +	/* for case of SFDP header read commands, populate spi device size */
> > > +	if (flash->spimem->spi->size == 0)
> > > +		flash->spimem->spi->size = nor->mtd.size;
> > > +  
> > If the 'size' is an spimem specific variable it should be added to the spi_mem
> > struct rather than the spi_device struct.  
> 
> Sure, would move 'size' from struct spi_device to the struct spi_mem.

Before you send a new version doing that, I'd like to understand why
you need this information. Can you wait a bit so I have some time to
review the driver?

Thanks,

Boris