[PATCH 2/6] mtd: m25p80: Convert to device table matching

[Anton Vorontsov]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:17:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:54:50 -0700
> David Brownell <david-b at pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 30 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > > This patch converts the m25p80 driver so that now it uses .id_table
> > > for device matching, making it properly detect devices on OpenFirmware
> > > platforms (prior to this patch the driver misdetected non-JEDEC chips,
> > > seeing all chips as "m25p80").
> > 
> > I suspect "detect" is a misnomer there.  It only "detects" JEDEC chips.
> > All others got explicit declarations ... so if there's misbehavior for
> > other chips, it's because those declarations were poorly handled.  Maybe
> > they were not properly flagged as non-JDEC
> > 
> >  
> > > Also, now jedec_probe() only does jedec probing, nothing else. If it
> > > is not able to detect a chip, NULL is returned and the driver fall
> > > backs to the information specified by the platform (platform_data, or
> > > exact ID).
> > 
> > I'd rather keep the warning, so there's a clue about what's really
> > going on:  JEDEC chip found, but its ID is not handled.
> > 
> 
> afaik there was no response to David's review comments, so this patch
> is in the "stuck" state.

Hm? Response:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/18/363

And the two patches I sent on top:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/18/364
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/18/366

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