This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change definition naming to retry write operation to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mtd-cfi_cmdset_0002-change-definition-naming-to-retry-write-operation.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From 85a82e28b023de9b259a86824afbd6ba07bd6475 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 18:32:27 +0900 Subject: mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Change definition naming to retry write operation From: Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 85a82e28b023de9b259a86824afbd6ba07bd6475 upstream. The definition can be used for other program and erase operations also. So change the naming to MAX_RETRIES from MAX_WORD_RETRIES. Signed-off-by: Tokunori Ikegami <ikegami at allied-telesis.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com> Cc: Chris Packham <chris.packham at alliedtelesis.co.nz> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at> Cc: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen at wedev4u.fr> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at bootlin.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ #define AMD_BOOTLOC_BUG #define FORCE_WORD_WRITE 0 -#define MAX_WORD_RETRIES 3 +#define MAX_RETRIES 3 #define SST49LF004B 0x0060 #define SST49LF040B 0x0050 @@ -1643,7 +1643,7 @@ static int __xipram do_write_oneword(str map_write( map, CMD(0xF0), chip->start ); /* FIXME - should have reset delay before continuing */ - if (++retry_cnt <= MAX_WORD_RETRIES) + if (++retry_cnt <= MAX_RETRIES) goto retry; ret = -EIO; @@ -2102,7 +2102,7 @@ retry: map_write(map, CMD(0xF0), chip->start); /* FIXME - should have reset delay before continuing */ - if (++retry_cnt <= MAX_WORD_RETRIES) + if (++retry_cnt <= MAX_RETRIES) goto retry; ret = -EIO; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ikegami at allied-telesis.co.jp are queue-4.9/mtd-cfi_cmdset_0002-change-erase-functions-to-retry-for-error.patch queue-4.9/mtd-cfi_cmdset_0002-change-erase-functions-to-check-chip-good-only.patch queue-4.9/mtd-cfi_cmdset_0002-change-definition-naming-to-retry-write-operation.patch