Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: m25p80: Fix false-positive probing

From: Artem Bityutskiy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:57:24 +0300

On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 20:57 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Since commit 18c6182bae0acca220ed6611f741034d563cd19f ("Rework
> probing/JEDEC code"), m25p80 driver successfully registers chips
> even if JEDEC probing fails.
> 
> This was needed to support non-JEDEC flashes. Though, it appears
> that some platforms (e.g. blackfin bf533 stamp[1]) used the old
> behavior to detect if there's any flash connected, so the driver
> have to fail on JEDEC probing errors.
> 
> This patch restores the old behavior for JEDEC flashes, and adds
> "-nonjedec" SPI device IDs for M25Pxx flashes, so that the kernel
> still supports non-JEDEC flashes.
> 
> [1] http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=5975
> 
> Reported-by: Mingquan Pan
> Reported-by: Barry Song <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <[email-masked]>
> ---

Pushed both patches to my l2-mtd-2.6.git / dunno, added Mike's ack.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)