From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] octeon: only build flash_setup code when CONFIG_MTD is set
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:05:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906222305.48346.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090622144042.GC25289@linux-mips.org>
Le Monday 22 June 2009 16:40:42 Ralf Baechle, vous avez écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:16:21AM +0200, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > This patch makes the flash_setup code be compiled only when
> > CONFIG_MTD is set, it does make sense to register a physmap
> > platform driver without the MTD subsystem being enabled.
>
> No. A user might build the MTD subsystem as a module and then insert it
> into a running system so the idea is to always register the devices. This
> also keeps the information in /proc/iomem rsp. /proc/iostat and sysfs
> more useful.
Right.
--
Best regards, Florian Fainelli
Email : florian@openwrt.org
http://openwrt.org
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-22 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-22 9:16 [PATCH 2/2] octeon: only build flash_setup code when CONFIG_MTD is set Florian Fainelli
2009-06-22 14:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-06-22 21:05 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
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