Re: [PATCH 0/5] m25p80,spi-nor: Fix module aliases for m25p80; clean up chip identification
- To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
- Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>, linux-spi <linux-spi@vger.kernel.org>, Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>, MTD Maling List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>, debian-kernel <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] m25p80,spi-nor: Fix module aliases for m25p80; clean up chip identification
- From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 15:03:00 -0700
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 06:13:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 18:10 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > The first patch in the series restores the module aliases to m25p80, but
> > it does so by duplicating the list of names. This should be suitable
> > for stable, but it isn't viable in the longer term.
> >
> > The following patches change the spi-nor interface so that this
> > duplication is no longer necessary. This includes removing
> > spi_nor::read_id, but it could be re-added after this with a different
> > interface, e.g. returning a flash_info structure (which would need to be
> > defined in spi_nor.h).
>
> Note that these patch are:
> - Based on your 'testing' branch
Which testing branch? These two are the only official
repos for MTD:
git git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd.git
git git://git.infradead.org/l2-mtd.git
> - Untested by me, aside from compiling and checking that m25p80 has the
> expected module aliases
Brian
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