On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 05:14:43PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 16:51, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 06:35:46AM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > > > Check that the NVMEM cell's raw_len is a aligned to word_size. Otherwise > > > Otherwise drivers might face incomplete read while accessing the last > > > part of the NVMEM cell. > > I'm seeing a bunch of failures on i.MX platforms in -next which bisect > > to this patch. For example on the i.MX6q based UDOOq various things > > including the ethernet fail to come up due to the efuse not appearing: > > [ 1.735264] nvmem imx-ocotp0: cell mac-addr raw len 6 unaligned to nvmem word size 4 > > [ 1.735289] imx_ocotp 21bc000.efuse: probe with driver imx_ocotp failed with error -22 > This looks like an error on the i.MX platforms. The raw_len must be > aligned to word size. I think the easiest fix is to implement the > .fixup_dt_cell_info() callback like I did for the qfprom driver. That sounds pluasible, but as things stand we've got a regression on these platforms - taking out ethernet breaks NFS boot apart from anything else. I'd also be a bit concerned that there might be other users with issues, does this need an audit of users before trying to enforce this requirement?
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