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

Murali Nalajala mnalajal at codeaurora.org
Mon Mar 21 03:58:50 EDT 2011


On 3/21/2011 12:42 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 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!!!
>

The driver (msm_nand.c) is in align to MTD specification.
But this commit text is bit misleading, initially the driver
didn't make use of nand flash devices information from the
flash id table which are part of the MTD subsystem. Hence
we have enabled this config option to make use of it.

Thanks,
Murali N

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