[PATCH 1/2] Documentation: devicetree: m25p80: add "nor-jedec" binding

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 16:30:05 PDT 2015


On 20 March 2015 at 20:12, Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, and that is an eventual goal I suppose, but the current list is
> excessive and is most likely not currently relied on by any one. So I
> don't just want to C&P the entire list into this binding immediately.
>
> I guess my plan looks like this:
>
> 1. add "nor-jedec" binding, to provide lowest common denominator binding
> (this series)
>
> 2. stop adding to the m25p_ids[] table unless necessary (enabled by this
> series)
>
> 3. gauge whether we can remove certain entries from m25p_ids[] (e.g., if
> they were only used in platform_data, not DT; or if they were very
> recently added just to synchronize with spi-nor.c)

Why we can't remove (slowly) all entries from m25p_ids that don't need
any extra handling?

If we'll have DT with
"spansion,m25p80", "nor-jedec"
and then m25p80.c will handle both: "m25p80" and "nor-jedec" without
any difference, what's the point of keeping "m25p80" entry?



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