[PATCH] scripts: config_whitelist: CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_AUTOPROTECT_LIST

Sergei Antonov saproj at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 11:23:30 CEST 2022


On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 19:16, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2022 at 05:49:50PM +0300, Sergei Antonov wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Sept 2022 at 17:31, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2022 at 05:30:30PM +0300, Sergei Antonov wrote:
> > >
> > > > CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_AUTOPROTECT_LIST is a feature of drivers/mtd/cfi_flash.c
> > > > driver. It allows to specify a range of protected eraseblocks on flash memory.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes build error:
> > > > Error: You must add new CONFIG options using Kconfig
> > > > The following new ad-hoc CONFIG options were detected:
> > > > CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_AUTOPROTECT_LIST
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Antonov <saproj at gmail.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  scripts/config_whitelist.txt | 1 +
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > Please move this to Kconfig so that it can be enabled, thanks.
> >
> > What type must it be in Kconfig? Note, it is an array initializer
> > similar to CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE.
>
> Ah, ugh. So, it's also currently unused code, what does it look like in
> the platform you're making use of this on?

In my _defconfig I use this line:
CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_AUTOPROTECT_LIST="{{0x80000000, 0x40000}}"
To protect the first 256 KB of flash memory.


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