diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/spi/spi-intel.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/spi/spi-intel.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-intel.c b/drivers/spi/spi-intel.c index 5d5a546c62ea..13bbb2133507 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-intel.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-intel.c @@ -189,6 +189,11 @@ struct intel_spi_mem_op { static bool writeable; module_param(writeable, bool, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(writeable, "Enable write access to SPI flash chip (default=0)"); +static bool ignore_protection_status; +module_param(ignore_protection_status, bool, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC( + ignore_protection_status, + "Do not block SPI flash chip write access even if it is write-protected (default=0)"); static void intel_spi_dump_regs(struct intel_spi *ispi) { @@ -1248,13 +1253,15 @@ static void intel_spi_fill_partition(struct intel_spi *ispi, continue; /* - * If any of the regions have protection bits set, make the - * whole partition read-only to be on the safe side. + * If any of the regions have protection bits set and + * the ignore protection status parameter is not set, + * make the whole partition read-only to be on the safe side. * * Also if the user did not ask the chip to be writeable * mask the bit too. */ - if (!writeable || intel_spi_is_protected(ispi, base, limit)) { + if (!writeable || (!ignore_protection_status && + intel_spi_is_protected(ispi, base, limit))) { part->mask_flags |= MTD_WRITEABLE; ispi->protected = true; } |