Re: Arctic-2 MTD driver

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:28:06PM +0100, Marius Groeger wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:46:50AM +0100, Marius Groeger wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello David,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, David Gibson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Having committed the core support code for the Arctic-2, here come
> > > > some drivers for it.  Below is an MTD map for the Arctic-2, derived
> > > > from beech-mtd.c.  Essentially all it does is provide suitable
> > > > hardwired partitions.
> > >
> > > Can you also post this to the linux-mtd folks?
> >
> > No point in doing that yet, as the underlying support code for the
> > Arctic-2 won't be making Marcelo's tree for a while yet.
>
> I don't see a point in NOT doing this. It will have to be done anyway,
> so David might as well do it now and be done with it.

Unusable, untestable code which may or may not need minor changes before
going upstream? (For example, I need to go and do similar changes to an
upstream version of maps/Config.in like I just did to the _devel ones).

There's no real advantage to doing it now or later, in other words. :)

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