[U-Boot] [PATCH V3 4/6] sf command: allow default chip select through CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_CS

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Jan 27 03:50:27 CET 2012


On Thursday 26 January 2012 20:22:22 Eric Nelson wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 11:08 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 January 2012 11:18:22 Eric Nelson wrote:
> >> This patch allows a board configuration file to provide a default
> >> chip-select for serial flash so that first argument to the 'sf' command
> >> is optional.
> >> 
> >> On boards that use the mxc_spi driver and a GPIO for chip select, this
> >> 
> >> allows a much simpler command line:
> >> 	U-Boot>  sf probe
> >> 
> >> instead of
> >> 
> >> 	U-Boot>  sf probe 0x5300
> > 
> > NAK (to this version of the patch): missing README update, and other
> > issues below
> 
> Which README? The only references I find to serial flash support
> are in board-specific README files.

all new CONFIG_xxx defines should be documented in the top level README.  
granted, the existin SF ones have slipped in without being documented, but 
that's bad for them ;).

> >> --- a/common/cmd_sf.c
> >> +++ b/common/cmd_sf.c
> >> 
> >> -	if (*endp == ':') {
> >> -		if (endp[1] == 0)
> >> -			return -1;
> >> +	}
> >> +#else
> >> +	cs = CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_CS ;
> >> +#endif
> > 
> > you're setting the default CS, not locking it in.  so a better config
> > knob name
> > 
> > would be something like:
> > 	CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS
> > 
> > this matches the existing CONFIG_SF_XXX defines
> > 
> > also, you have a spurious space before the semicolon there
> 
> Thanks Mike,
> 
> FWIW, I chose this name on purpose to make life easier on a couple of
> other boards immediately (efika and vision2):

those boards are dumb -- that define isn't used anywhere, so that's just dead 
code.  cmd_sf has a standard already, so new defines specific to cmd_sf should 
follow that.
-mike
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