The MTD subsystem has historically tried to be as configurable as possible. The
side-effect of this is that its configuration menu is rather large, and we are
gradually shrinking it. For example, we recently merged partitions support with
the mtdcore.
This patch does the next step - it merges the mtdchar module to mtdcore. And in
this case this is not only about eliminating too fine-grained separation and
simplifying the configuration menu. This is also about eliminating seemingly
useless kernel module.
Indeed, mtdchar is a module that allows user-space making use of MTD devices
via /dev/mtd* character devices. If users do not enable it, they simply cannot
use MTD devices at all. They cannot read or write the flash contents. Is it a
sane and useful setup? I believe not. And everyone just enables mtdchar.
Having mtdchar separate is also a little bit harmful. People sometimes miss the
fact that they need to enable an additional configuration option to have
user-space MTD interfaces, and then they wonder why on earth the kernel does
not allow using the flash? They spend time asking around.
Thus, let's just get rid of this module and make it part of mtd core.
Note, mtdchar had additional configuration option to enable OTP interfaces,
which are present on some flashes. I removed that option as well - it saves a
really tiny amount space.
[dwmw2: Strictly speaking, you can mount file systems on MTD devices just
fine without the mtdchar (or mtdblock) devices; you just can't do
other manipulations directly on the underlying device. But still I
agree that it makes sense to make this unconditional. And Yay! we
get to kill off an instance of checking CONFIG_foo_MODULE, which is
an abomination that should never happen.]
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
We need them to add erase/write support. This may duplicate some defines
with bcma and/or ssb code, but it makes more sense to keep that in
bcm47xxsflash which is supposed to work with both buses.
Duplicated defines will be removed from ssb/bcma.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
In case the driver is not probed - due to config mismatches or errors
in the DTS files - dev_get_drvdata() returns NULL, leading to an Ooops
during boot.
Make elm_config() return an error in such cases to propagate the error
up to the user, so it can fall back to software mode.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This device was reported over a year ago on OpenWrt mailing list in the
thread [OpenWrt-Devel] RedBoot partition table with winbond m25q128vb
(unfortunately, I can't find message id). Macpaul seemed to have
problems with partition driver, but it seems the device was working OK.
Reported-by: Macpaul Lin <macpaul@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Not all SST devices implement the SST byte programming command.
Some devices (like SST25VF064C) implement only standard m25p80 page
write command.
Now SPI flash devices that need sst_write() are explicitly marked
with new SST_WRITE flag and the decision to use sst_write() is based
on this flag instead of manufacturer id.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
These drivers are deprecated for very long time, and we have a different driver
for these called "diskonchip". Thus, kill the ancient cruft.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
The 'id' is a bit confusing name because NAND IDs are multi-byte. Re-name
it to 'dev_id' to make it clear that this is the "device ID" part (the second
byte).
While on it, clean-up the commentary for 'struct nand_flash_dev'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Pull MTD update from David Woodhouse:
"Fairly unexciting MTD merge for 3.9:
- misc clean-ups in the MTD command-line partitioning parser
(cmdlinepart)
- add flash locking support for STmicro chips serial flash chips, as
well as for CFI command set 2 chips.
- new driver for the ELM error correction HW module found in various
TI chips, enable the OMAP NAND driver to use the ELM HW error
correction
- added number of new serial flash IDs
- various fixes and improvements in the gpmi NAND driver
- bcm47xx NAND driver improvements
- make the mtdpart module actually removable"
* tag 'for-linus-20130301' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (45 commits)
mtd: map: BUG() in non handled cases
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: use pr_fmt for module prefix in messages
mtd: davinci_nand: Use managed resources
mtd: mtd_torturetest can cause stack overflows
mtd: physmap_of: Convert device allocation to managed devm_kzalloc()
mtd: at91: atmel_nand: for PMECC, add code to check the ONFI parameter ECC requirement.
mtd: atmel_nand: make pmecc-cap, pmecc-sector-size in dts is optional.
mtd: atmel_nand: avoid to report an error when lookup table offset is 0.
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: adjust names of bus-specific functions
mtd: bcm47xxpart: improve probing of nvram partition
mtd: bcm47xxpart: add support for other erase sizes
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: register this as normal driver
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: fix message
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: register this as normal driver
mtd: bcm47xxsflash: write number of written bytes
mtd: gpmi: add sanity check for the ECC
mtd: gpmi: set the Golois Field bit for mx6q's BCH
mtd: devices: elm: Removes <xx> literals in elm DT node
mtd: gpmi: fix a dereferencing freed memory error
mtd: fix the wrong timeo for panic_nand_wait()
...
Pull driver core patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here is the big driver core merge for 3.9-rc1
There are two major series here, both of which touch lots of drivers
all over the kernel, and will cause you some merge conflicts:
- add a new function called devm_ioremap_resource() to properly be
able to check return values.
- remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
Other than those patches, there's not much here, some minor fixes and
updates"
Fix up trivial conflicts
* tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (221 commits)
base: memory: fix soft/hard_offline_page permissions
drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting initcalls
backlight: fix class_find_device() arguments
TTY: mark tty_get_device call with the proper const values
driver-core: constify data for class_find_device()
firmware: Ignore abort check when no user-helper is used
firmware: Reduce ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
firmware: Make user-mode helper optional
firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper code
Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices
watchdog: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
thermal: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
spi: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
power: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mtd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mmc: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
mfd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
media: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
iommu: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
drm: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
...
Pull MTD fixes from David Woodhouse:
"A small set of simple regression and build fixes for 3.8:
- Fix a warning introduced in ONFI NAND probe
- Fix commandline partition parsing
- Require BITREVERSE for DiskOnChip G3 driver
- Fix build failure for davinci_nand as module
- Bump NFLASH_READY_RETRIES for bcm47xxnflash"
* tag 'for-linus-20130204' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
mtd: nand: onfi don't WARN if we are in 16 bits mode
mtd: physmap_of: fix cmdline partition method w/o linux, mtd-name
mtd: docg3 fix missing bitreverse lib
mtd: davinci_nand: fix modular build with CONFIG_OF=y
mtd: bcm47xxnflash: increase NFLASH_READY_RETRIES
When platform_driver_probe() is used and no device is registered for
this driver -ENODEV is returned and and error message is shown. Not all
BCM47xx SoC have a serial flash chip controller and chip and for them
an error message was shown.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
As part of removing generalized dependency, replace <xx> literal fields
in DT compatible field with <52> for am335x platforms.
Signed-off-by: Philip Avinash <avinashphilip@ti.com>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
