[PATCH 0/4] mtd: kill the NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE/NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Sat Jan 11 18:47:31 EST 2014
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:02:26AM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> [1] Why kill them?
> As time goes on, the NAND's page size and oob size become larger and larger.
> So we have changes these two macros frequently in order to support the new
> NAND.
>
> [2] How does this patch set do?
> There are three drivers which uses these two macros, the mxc-nand, denali,
> and the cafe-nand.
>
> This patch will allocate a temporary buffer for the nand_scan_ident, and
> after it have getten the right page size and oob size, it will re-allocate
> the buffer again.
>
> [3] I do not have the boards which have the relative NAND controller.
>
> I hope someone can test this patch set.
>
> thanks.
>
>
> Huang Shijie (4):
> mtd: mxc-nand: kill the NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE/NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE
> mtd: denali: kill the NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE/NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE
> mtd: nand: kill the the NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE/NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE for
> nand_buffers{}
> mtd: nand: remove the NAND_MAX_PAGESIZE/NAND_MAX_OOBSIZE
Pushed only the first 2 patches. Patch 3 still has some issues.
Thanks,
Brian
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