[PATCH 0/5] m25p80,spi-nor: Fix module aliases for m25p80; clean up chip identification

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 15:03:00 PDT 2014


On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 06:13:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 18:10 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > The first patch in the series restores the module aliases to m25p80, but
> > it does so by duplicating the list of names.  This should be suitable
> > for stable, but it isn't viable in the longer term.
> > 
> > The following patches change the spi-nor interface so that this
> > duplication is no longer necessary.  This includes removing
> > spi_nor::read_id, but it could be re-added after this with a different
> > interface, e.g. returning a flash_info structure (which would need to be
> > defined in spi_nor.h).
> 
> Note that these patch are:
> - Based on your 'testing' branch

Which testing branch? These two are the only official
repos for MTD:

    git git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd.git
    git git://git.infradead.org/l2-mtd.git

> - Untested by me, aside from compiling and checking that m25p80 has the
>   expected module aliases

Brian



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