Fwd: sharpsl nand driver still broken in current git

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Sat Jul 15 08:01:34 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:51 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 01:09 +0100, Steven Newbury wrote:
> > > Since the NAND subsystem has been updated from the recent ARM merge the
> > > sharpsl
> > > driver no longer detects the NAND device from nand_scan.
> > > ...
> > > Sharp SL series flash device: 800000 at 0
> > > Using static partision definition
> > > Creating 1 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-flash":
> > > 0x00140000-0x007f0000 : "Boot PROM Filesystem"
> > > No NAND device found!!!
> > > ...
> 
> I converted the driver blindly after I changed the core code. Richard
> can you please look into that ?

The conversion was at fault and a patch to fix it will follow this mail.

I'm loathed to create an mtd git tree containing it as last time I spent
time doing this, the pull request was totally ignored and someone else
ended up duplicating the work.

Richard







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