Using a generic upstream driver with a custom NAND controller

[Mason]

On 21/01/2016 15:12, David Woodhouse wrote:

> Mason wrote:
>
>> Maybe you can help me find convincing arguments why upstreaming
>> is good.
> 
> The rest of your own email is, surely, precisely such an argument?

Indeed :-)

Problem is: I tried that argument, and it fell on deaf ears.
"There's none so deaf as those who will not hear."

> If you attempt to submit the core changes upstream, then either we help
> you find a better way to do things so that those changes *aren't*
> needed, or we merge them so that all you need to do is a minor update
> to the driver itself (as you hoped).

Great idea. I'll send in the diff tomorrow. I hope the code
won't give the maintainers a heart attack...

Regards.