Re: Re[2]: [PATCH 02/12] mtd: remove museum NAND ID's support

[Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 12:32 +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 20:59 +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > > >From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
> > > >
> > > >It is probably OK to remove support for really old NAND chips of 8MiB or
> > > >smaller size. We had a separate configuration option for them:
> > > >CONFIG_MTD_NAND_MUSEUM_IDS, which we remove along with this patch.
> > > >
> > > >Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
> > > >---
> > > > drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig    |    8 --------
> > > > drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ids.c |   19 -------------------
> > > > 2 files changed, 27 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Hello.
> > > This change break systems with these NAND-chips, for example
> > > these IDs is used in old DiskOnChip devices.
> > 
> > Do you have one of those and use them with modern kernels ? Which one is
> > that?
> 
> Yes. ID used in the MD2800-D08. I specifically included a configuration option
> to support this chip ;) Unfortunately, I can not say the exact device ID now because
> all of such devices sent in production, and I have no more now.
> Of course, these devices are not in production at the moment, but they are still
> being sold.

Or probably, we can kill NANDs with 256 byte page - they are really from
the stone age, while the 512 bytes ones are at least from the copper
age.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy