[PATCH v3 2/2] mtd: fsl-quadspi: Fix module unbound

[Huang Shijie]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:05:29PM +0000, Frank.Li at freescale.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi Fabio,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 07:45:22PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Brian Norris
> > > <computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >> - Read the two flashes.
> > > >
> > > > Are you doing any verification to make sure you're reading the
> > > > *correct* data? I'd imagine from some what I see in your patches,
> > > > that you might actually be reading from the wrong flash.
> > >
> > > Yes, you are right. Just confirmed that with this v3 applied I erased
> > > /dev/mtd0, but that also incorrectly erased /dev/mtd1.
> > >
> > > Now I came back to the original v1 patch: isn't it the simpler
> > > approach for fixing the module load/unload crash problem?
> > >
> > > It only keeps the mtd unregistration index in sync with registration
> > > and doesn't touch other areas of the driver.
> > >
> > > IMHO it is an improvement over the current situation.
> > 
> > Right, I thought your original patch was an improvement, but it did still leave
> > some of the error path broken. And as Huang mentioned, multiple devices
> > were never actually *properly* supported, so there were problems there.
> > 
> > > I agree that this driver needs more rework, but I am not able to put
> > > it on such good state.
> > 
> > I might be OK with taking v1 if we can do the following:
> > 
> > (1) Identify who will take responsibility for testing and improving this driver.
> > We might even add a MAINTAINERS entry
> 
> Our QSPI driver owner Xu han (han.xu at freescale.com) will take responsibility to test and improve
> This driver.  I will help him to be familiar with linux kernel community work. 
Good news. 

Huang Shijie