pxa2xx-flash again, please?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:42:04PM -0700, Todd Poynor wrote:
>
>>>>> Sorry. This patch has been committed to mtd CVS (I think so, as it
>>>>> appeared on mtd-cvs ML:
>>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd-cvs/2005-December/005252.html)
>>>>>
>>>>> and I asked this question already a few weeks ago, so, I thought it
>>>>> might
>>>>> ring the bell... The problem is - the patch has been submitted last
>>>>> December still it is not in stock kernel nor in 2 mtd git-trees on
>>>>> kernel.org/git, so...
>>>>
>>>> Well, the cvs has basically been abandoned.  There was some effort to
>>>> pull the important patches from cvs into git, but as you noticed,
>>>> things were lost.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure whether the patch makes sense or not.  Maybe Todd can comment
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> I think it does. It makes one file per (pxa) platform fewer.
>>
>> When I last checked the patch was a good thing, collapsing two
>> practically identical XScale PXA2xx mapping drivers into one and
>> converting to platform devices.
>
> I'd also like to see the unified pxa2xx flash mapping driver go in, so
> that it can be used by the LogicPD PXA270 board support code (merged in
> 2.6.17) too, instead of making Yet Another copy of mainstone-flash.c.

This patch is still not upstream, as far as I can see. Can we please push 
it up?

Thanks
Guennadi
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