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mtd: spi-nor: ignore errors in spi_nor_unlock_all()
[ Upstream commit bdb1a75 ] Just try to unlock the whole SPI-NOR flash array. Don't abort the probing in case of an error. Justifications: (1) For some boards, this just works because spi_nor_write_16bit_sr_and_check() is broken and just checks the second half of the 16bit. Once that will be fixed, SPI probe will fail for boards which has hardware-write protected SPI-NOR flashes. (2) Until now, hardware write-protection was the only viable solution to use the block protection bits. This is because this very function spi_nor_unlock_all() will be called unconditionally on every linux boot. Therefore, this bits only makes sense in combination with the hardware write-protection. If we would fail the SPI probe on an error in spi_nor_unlock_all() we'd break virtually all users of the block protection bits. (3) We should try hard to keep the MTD working even if the flash might not be writable/erasable. Fixes: 3e0930f ("mtd: spi-nor: Rework the disabling of block write protection") Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> Signed-off-by: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com> Reviewed-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201203162959.29589-3-michael@walle.cc Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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