Bug in nand_select_chip?

[llandre]

>On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:11, llandre wrote:
> > > > I fixed the driver as shown in the NAND Flash document:
> > > > - nCE pin low when hwcontrol is invoked with NAND_CTL_SETNCE
> > > > - nCE pin high when hwcontrol is invoked with NAND_CTL_CLRNCE
> > > > and now the driver works with the new MTD code.
> > >
> > >That's the reason why documents are written. :)
> > >
> > >But the driver should work with the old code too, as this never changed
> > > since we started NAND support in JFFS2.
> >
> > In my understanding the driver does not work with the old code because
> > the old nand_select_chip() implementation called this->hwcontrol(mtd,
> > NAND_CTL_CLRNCE),
> > with chip==0, setting the nCE pin high.
>
>That's correct, but you unfortunaly relied on code, which was in a heavy
>modifciation phase. If you use leading edge code, be aware, that things might
>be broken from time to time. The fix for this was committed 10 days after the
>first rework.

Ok, thanks for the advice.
To avoid such problems, is it possible to download "stable" releases? Are they
tagged in the CVS repository?



Best regards,

llandre