[PATCH] sf: Querying write-protect status before operating the flash

[Jan Kiszka]

On 04.10.21 15:36, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 13.09.21 09:48, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Chao, please no top-post on mailing list. Also check your mail client,
>> it seems to inject a lot of bogus newlines.
>>
>> On 08.09.21 06:55, chaochao2021666 wrote:
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>>> HI Jagan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> sorry for the delay response.
>>>
>>>
>>> And I have checked the maser. There is still a problem with this feature。
>>>
>>>
>>> reproduce steps:
>>> 1. enable the flash protect function
>>> 2. using sf cmd to erase the flash. I can get the erase "OK",not the "error".
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think the root cause is that the detection mechanism is missing and to judge the permissions of the action
>>>
>>> So pull this PR to improve the erase flow
>>>
>>>
>>> another question:
>>> how can I visit the  u-boot-spi/next? do there any link?
>>>
>>
>> See MAINTAINERS: https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-spi.git
>>
>> But also that tree contains no usage of the flash_is_locked callback.
>> That was once evaluated by drivers/mtd/spi/spi_flash.c but then
>> forgotten in the new SPI NOR framework it seems.
>>
>> Chao's patch makes sense to me to restore this feature.
>>
>> Jan
>>
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>>> BRs
>>> Chao
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At 2021-06-29 21:50:28, "Jagan Teki" <jagan at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10:51 AM chao zeng <chaochao2021666 at 163.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Chao Zeng <chao.zeng at siemens.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> When operating the write-protection flash,spi_flash_std_write() and
>>>>> spi_flash_std_erase() would return wrong result.The flash is protected,
>>>>> but write or erase the flash would show "OK".
>>>>>
>>>>> Check the flash write protection state if the write-protection has enbale
>>>>> before operating the flash.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chao Zeng <chao.zeng at siemens.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Does it broken on master? if yes can you check in u-boot-spi/next?
>>>>
>>>> Jagan.
>>
> 
> Ping - how do we proceed here?
> 
> Jan
> 

Ping² - who can help to move this forward?

Thanks,
Jan

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