[PATCH V2 2/2] mtd: msm_nand: Add initial msm nand driver support.

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 03:56:06 EDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 09:32 +0200, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Murali Nalajala a écrit :
> > Add initial msm nand driver support for Qualcomm MSM platforms.
> > This driver is capable of handling both 2k and 4k page support
> > nand devices.
> > 
> > This driver was originally developed by Arve Hjønnevåg at google.
> > Its source is available at
> > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/msm.git under
> > android-msm-2.6.35 branch.
> > 
> > CC: Dima Zavin <dima at android.com>
> > CC: Brian Swetland <swetland at google.com>
> > CC: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve at android.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Murali Nalajala <mnalajal at codeaurora.org>
> > ---
> > Changes in V2
> > * Turn most of the pr_info() calls into pr_debug().
> > 
> >  drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig    |   11 +
> >  drivers/mtd/devices/Makefile   |    1 +
> >  drivers/mtd/devices/msm_nand.c | 1597 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/mtd/devices/msm_nand.h |   77 ++
> >  4 files changed, 1686 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/devices/msm_nand.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/devices/msm_nand.h
> > 
> 
> For the record, I am not sure it is a great idea to make nand drivers
> independent of the nand layer.

This is not acceptable. Nand drivers should use the nand_base framework.
If the framework is limiting, buggy, slow, etc for your case (which is
quite possible) - the framework should be improved.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)




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