From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] Add support for flag status register on Micron chips.
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:06:17 +0200
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On Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 05:10:13 AM, Huang Shijie wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:12:24AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > the drivers may fills this hook itself, so the code should like this:
> > > > >    --------------------------------------------------
> > > > > 	
> > > > > 	if ((info->flags & USE_FSR) &&
> > > > > 	
> > > > > 	       	nor->wait_till_ready == spi_nor_wait_till_fsr_ready)
> > > > > 		
> > > > > 		nor->wait_till_ready = spi_nor_wait_till_fsr_ready;
> > > > > 		
> > > > >    --------------------------------------------------
> > > > 
> > > > I sense a misdesign of the SPI NOR subsystem here. The subsystem and
> > > > the driver compete for a function pointer here ? I guess one should
> > > > have precedence in some way then ... and also, they should be two
> > > > different pointers, where the subsystem decides which to use.
> > > 
> > > the subsystem do not decides which one to use, the driver decides which
> > > one to use.
> > > 
> > > If driver has its own @wait_till_ready , it means the driver knows the
> > > feature, and has implemented it in its own @wait_till_ready.
> > > 
> > > If the driver does not fill any wait_till_ready, it means the driver
> > > will use the default @wait_till_ready. We can treat the
> > > spi_nor_wait_till_fsr_ready as a default hook too.
> > 
> > I see the driver overwriting a hook previously set by the subsystem. This
> 
> not sure ;)
> 
> The driver set the hooks before the subsystem set these hooks.
> 
> If the driver has already set the @wait_till_ready hook before it calls
> the spi_nor_scan, the subsystem will not set the hook anymore.
> 
> Please see the spi_nor_check().

Two things competing over the same pointer looks misdesigned to me. I will need 
to dig into this one more time ...

Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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