[PATCH] Renaming 'struct flash_platform_data' into 'struct spi_flash_platform_data' in include/linux/spi/flash.h

Alexis RODET alexis.rodet at bvs-tech.com
Mon Nov 22 04:58:06 EST 2010


Hello,

As I discussed with Russell King on the list
linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org, there is a problem with the double
definition of 'struct flash_platform_data' that are incompatible:

in arch/arm/include/asm/mach/flash.h:
struct flash_platform_data {
    const char    *map_name;
    const char    *name;
    unsigned int    width;
    int        (*init)(void);
    void        (*exit)(void);
    void        (*set_vpp)(int on);
    void        (*mmcontrol)(struct mtd_info *mtd, int sync_read);
    struct mtd_partition *parts;
    unsigned int    nr_parts;
};

in include/linux/spi/flash.h:
struct flash_platform_data {
    char        *name;
    struct mtd_partition *parts;
    unsigned int    nr_parts;

    char        *type;

    /* we'll likely add more ... use JEDEC IDs, etc */
};


Both headers are included in a number of machines or driver.
They make conflict when one has both spi flash and an other type of mtd flash on the same machine (my case).

I suppose the ARM version has no reason not to be platform independent, but that is an other problem.

I propose to rename SPI version of the structure as it is the younger and it is included in a less number of files.
The patch (already sent on linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org) is in attachment.

Best regards,
Alexis RODET


Le 21/11/2010 05:47, Baruch Siach a écrit :
> Hi Alexis,
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 06:23:09PM +0100, Alexis RODET wrote:
>>> It would, however, be nice if _someone_ out there could produce a patch
>> Here is the patch and here is the command line used for doing this:
> You need to CC the MTD maintainer and mailing list (David Woodhouse 
> <dwmw2 at infradead.org>, and linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org respectively), and 
> maybe also the SPI subsystem maintainers (David Brownell 
> <dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net>, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>, 
> spi-devel-general at lists.sourceforge.net).
>
> baruch
>

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