[PATCH v2] mtd: nand: Add help text for i.MX NAND controllers
Trent Piepho
tpiepho at gmail.com
Thu May 27 01:37:41 PDT 2021
There are two different NAND drivers, used for different chips in the
i.MX range. It's quite confusing as to which to use. Add some help
text to clarify.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho at gmail.com>
---
Changes from V1:
Add GPMI and NFC names, fix typos.
drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig
index 7c9326089..8fb1cedd6 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig
@@ -32,14 +32,27 @@ config NAND_ALLOW_ERASE_BAD
config NAND_IMX
bool
- prompt "i.MX NAND driver"
+ prompt "i.MX21 to 53 NAND driver aka 'mxc', for NFC"
depends on ARCH_IMX
+ help
+ Support for NAND flash on Freescale/NXP i.MX devices. This is for the
+ "MXC" series: i.MX21/25/27/31/35/51/53.
+
+ This is not for the "MXS" series i.MX processors (23 & 28), or i.MX6
+ and later, which use the GPMI NAND controller from the MXS series.
+ See the i.MX 'mxs' driver for those chips.
config NAND_MXS
bool
select STMP_DEVICE
- prompt "i.MX23/28/6 NAND driver"
+ prompt "i.MX23/28 & 6+ NAND driver aka 'mxs', for GPMI"
depends on MXS_APBH_DMA
+ help
+ Support for NAND flash on Freescale/NXP i.MX devices. This is for the
+ "MXS" series: i.MX23/28 and all i.MX6 and later SoCs.
+
+ This is not for the "MXC" series of i.MX processors in the i.MX21 to
+ i.MX53 range. See the i.MX "mxc" driver for those chips.
config NAND_OMAP_GPMC
tristate "NAND Flash Support for GPMC based OMAP platforms"
--
2.26.2
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