This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: nand: assign reasonable default name for NAND drivers to the 4.4-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-nand-assign-reasonable-default-name-for-nand-drivers.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f7a8e38f07a17be90758559fe66fe7337096053f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:39:45 -0800 Subject: mtd: nand: assign reasonable default name for NAND drivers From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> commit f7a8e38f07a17be90758559fe66fe7337096053f upstream. Commits such as commit 853f1c58c4b2 ("mtd: nand: omap2: show parent device structure in sysfs") attempt to rely on the core MTD code to set the MTD name based on the parent device. However, nand_base tries to set a different default name according to the flash name (e.g., extracted from the ONFI parameter page), which means NAND drivers will never make use of the MTD defaults. This is not the intention of commit 853f1c58c4b2. This results in problems when trying to use the cmdline partition parser, since the MTD name is different than expected. Let's fix this by providing a default NAND name, where possible. Note that this is not really a great default name in the long run, since this means that if there are multiple MTDs attached to the same controller device, they will have the same name. But that is an existing issue and requires future work on a better controller vs. flash chip abstraction to fix properly. Fixes: 853f1c58c4b2 ("mtd: nand: omap2: show parent device structure in sysfs") Reported-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@xxxxxxx> Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@xxxxxxx> Cc: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c @@ -3995,6 +3995,9 @@ int nand_scan_ident(struct mtd_info *mtd return ret; } + if (!mtd->name && mtd->dev.parent) + mtd->name = dev_name(mtd->dev.parent); + /* Set the default functions */ nand_set_defaults(chip, chip->options & NAND_BUSWIDTH_16); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mtd-nand-assign-reasonable-default-name-for-nand-drivers.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html