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From: Mike Frysinger on 22 Jun 2010 14:00
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:57, 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.

Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org>

> [1] http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=5975

http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/tracker/5975

> Reported-by: Mingquan Pan

<Grace.Pan(a)analog.com>
-mike
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From: Artem Bityutskiy on 8 Jul 2010 02:10
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 <21cnbao(a)gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov(a)mvista.com>
> ---

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

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