Re: [PATCH 06/15] mtd: rawnand: Add nand_[de]select_target() helpers

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Mon, 29 Oct 2018
14:36:47 +0100:

> Hi Boris,
> 
> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Tue, 23 Oct 2018
> 20:50:02 +0200:
> 
> > Add a wrapper to prevent drivers and core code from directly calling
> > the ->select_chip hook which we are about to deprecate.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c |  23 +++--
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4740_nand.c         |   4 +-
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_base.c           | 114 ++++++++++++++-------
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/r852.c                |   4 +-
> >  include/linux/mtd/rawnand.h                |   4 +
> >  5 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
> >   
> 
> So far I am glad to see all these changes.
> 
> About the ->select_chip() removal, I wonder if it would not be better
> to also change the local variables "chipnr" or "chip_number" (or
> even "i") that suggest that this ID selects a chip, while it
> actually selects a die in a chip (and it is possible to have multiple
> die on a chip, so multiple CS for one single NAND chip).
> 
> Do you think it is worth the change ? If yes, would it fit in this patch
> or is it better to do this change elsewhere?
> 

This request actually applies to the following patches as well. Maybe we
could even find a uniform way to name it, "die_nr" or something like
this?

Miquèl

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