[PATCH] cfi: AMD/Fujitsu compatibles: add panic write support

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 18:04 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Fair enough, though that is exactly how the kernel gets more and more 
> bloated with features added and no way to get them disabled. 

On a related note, the unconditional bi-endianness support for CFI that
we just merged in commit 8e987465 gave me similar concerns.

We've traditionally been fairly good at keeping bloat out of the MTD
code — to the extent of compiling in support for specific geometries and
architecting the map code to optimise away all the conditionality in the
case where only one geometry is supported. And likewise the 'complex
mapping' bits.

Whether that level of bloat-paranoia still makes sense in Linux 3.x is
an open question. I suspect not, so I'm not *too* worried about starting
to be a little less anal about it.

-- 
dwmw2
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