[PATCH v4] MTD: nand: add support for diskonchip G4 nand flash device

[Artem Bityutskiy]

Hi Mike,

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 16:05 -0800, Mike Dunn wrote:
> +config MTD_NAND_DOCG4
> +	tristate "Support for DiskOnChip G4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> +	select BCH
> +	select BITREVERSE
> +	help
> +	  Support for diskonchip G4 nand flash, found in various smartphones and
> +	  PDAs, among them the Palm Treo680, HTC Prophet and Wizard, Toshiba
> +	  Portege G900, Asus P526, and O2 XDA Zinc.
> +
> +	  With this driver you will be able to use UBI and create a ubifs on the
> +	  device, so you may wish to consider enabling UBI and UBIFS as well.
> +
> +	  These devices ship with the Mys/Sandisk SAFTL formatting, for which
> +	  there is currently no mtd parser, so you may want to use command line
> +	  partitioning to segregate write-protected blocks.  On the Treo680, the
> +	  first five erase blocks (256K each) are write-protected, followed by
> +	  the block containing the saftl partition table.  This is probably
> +	  typical.

Why do add this to drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig instead of
drivers/mtd/devices/Kconfig lige DOCG3 does?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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