[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] nand: nand torture: follow sync with linux v4.6

[Max Krummenacher]

Am Donnerstag, den 09.06.2016, 12:10 -0500 schrieb Scott Wood:
> On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 10:35 +0200, Max Krummenacher wrote:
> > Hi Scott
> > 
> > 2016-06-09 1:47 GMT+02:00 Scott Wood <scott.wood at nxp.com>:
> > > On 06/07/2016 06:47 AM, Max Krummenacher wrote:
> > > > follow parameter name change (nand to mtd) to fix compiler
> > > > error.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher at toradex.com>
> > > > 
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > > Changes in v2:
> > > > - Patch v1 1/1 went into master, but Scott's patch series
> > > > syncing
> > > >   with kernel v4.6 introduced an additional compile time error.
> > > > 
> > > >  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
> > > > b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
> > > > index 5bba66a..e8bcc34 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
> > > > @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ int nand_torture(struct mtd_info *mtd,
> > > > loff_t
> > > > offset)
> > > >  {
> > > >       u_char patterns[] = {0xa5, 0x5a, 0x00};
> > > >       struct erase_info instr = {
> > > > -             .mtd = nand,
> > > > +             .mtd = mtd,
> > > >               .addr = offset,
> > > >               .len = mtd->erasesize,
> > > >       };
> > > 
> > > This got missed because no boards enable CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE.
> > >   If
> > > you use this option could you enable it in the relevant board?
> > 
> > I believe this makes option makes only sense if you do HW bringup
> > or
> > have issues with
> > your NAND driver. (Which I currently have with an i.MX 7 design)
> > So likely one would not want to enable this for production code.
> 
> That's why I suggested the alternative of adding one or more targets
> aimed at
> build coverage.
> 
> > On the other hand people switching on the option should be able to
> > fix
> > whatever issue
> > arises.
> > 
> > And, considering that it was broken since January 2013
> > (dfe64e2c89731a3f9950d7acd8681b68df2bae03) it can not be that
> > important.
> 
> This patch fixes a breakage that was merged within the past week. 
>  What was
> broken by the 2013 sync?

The 2013 sync did deprecate the outside use of the function pointers
in the mtd_info struct. To force this it did also rename the struct
members.
Since the torture code did not follow the rename it did no longer
compile.
Now fixed with
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=667067faa18334f1e28c01b4753
0b5cce1b6182f

Max

> 
> -Scott
>