[PATCH V2 1/2] mtd: nand: Allow NAND chip ids to be included standalone.

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 03:12:31 EDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 12:09 +0530, Murali Nalajala wrote:
> On 3/8/2011 11:11 PM, Murali Nalajala wrote:
> > On 3/8/2011 12:50 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 05:38 +0530, Murali Nalajala wrote:
> >>> Lets non-standard NAND drivers take advantage of known NAND
> >>> chip information.
> >>>
> >>> The initial development of msm nand driver, driver uses the supported
> >>> NAND devices information as a hardcoded table. Remove the existing
> >>> hardcoded supported flash device table and read the flash device
> >>> information from the flash id table which are part of the mtd subsystem.
> >>
> >> Why this initial version should be upstream? Why wouldn't you make it
> >> "standard" first?
> >>
> >
> > Currently we are not fully using the MTD nand subsystem. That's the
> > intention author has introduced "non-standard" here!!!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Murali N
> >
> 
> Any reviews comments on this change?

No, I think you should "sell" your driver better than that. Indeed,

Q: "Why this initial version should be upstream? Why wouldn't you make
it "standard" first?"
A: Currently we are not fully using the MTD nand subsystem. That's the
intention author has introduced "non-standard" here!!!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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