[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: dts: am437x-idk: Fix QSPI compatible string

Vignesh R vigneshr at ti.com
Mon Nov 21 05:37:34 CET 2016


Hi Jagan,

On Thursday 13 October 2016 06:24 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:45:52PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com> wrote:
>>> Unlike Linux kernel, U-Boot depends on "spi-flash" compatible to probe
>>> m25p80 spi-nor devices. Hence, add "spi-flash" compatible string to
>>> m25p80 node. Without this patch, flash device DT data is not parsed and
>>> QSPI operates in unsupported mode leading to data corruption.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>
>>
>> Applied to u-boot-spi/master
> 
> ... I don't like that we need a non u-boot prefixed string here for the
> binding to work as that will lead to harder re-syncs later on the dt
> files.  Why aren't we matching on the existing part?  Thanks!
> 

I don't see this patch in u-boot master yet. If this patch was dropped
due to Tom's comment above, then could you suggest how to address the issue?

-- 
Regards
Vignesh


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