On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:57, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
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> Since commit 18c6182bae0acca220ed6611f741034d563cd19f ("Rework
> probing/JEDEC code"), m25p80 driver successfully registers chips
> even if JEDEC probing fails.
>
> This was needed to support non-JEDEC flashes. Though, it appears
> that some platforms (e.g. blackfin bf533 stamp[1]) used the old
> behavior to detect if there's any flash connected, so the driver
> have to fail on JEDEC probing errors.
>
> This patch restores the old behavior for JEDEC flashes, and adds
> "-nonjedec" SPI device IDs for M25Pxx flashes, so that the kernel
> still supports non-JEDEC flashes.

Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

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> [1] http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tr...

http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/tracker/5975

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> Reported-by: Mingquan Pan

<Grace.Pan@analog.com>
-mike
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