From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
avorontsov@ru.mvista.com, ben-linux@fluff.org,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net,
grant.likely@secretlab.ca, khali@linux-fr.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] mtd: m25p80: convert to device table matching
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:51:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090923125105.baf250e7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909222353.n8MNr1Eg029863@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:53:01 -0700
akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> Convert the m25p80 driver so that now it uses .id_table for device
> matching, making it properly detect devices on OpenFirmware platforms
> (prior to this patch the driver misdetected non-JEDEC chips, seeing all
> chips as "m25p80").
>
> Also, now jedec_probe() only does jedec probing, nothing else. If it is
> not able to detect a chip, NULL is returned and the driver fall backs to
> the information specified by the platform (platform_data, or exact ID).
OK, I am now officially fed up with fixing the tremendous reject which
this patch tosses each time someone fiddles with the device table in
drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c (which seems to happen at about 38Hz).
I sent it and now I'll drop it. Sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-23 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-22 23:53 [patch 1/3] mtd: m25p80: convert to device table matching akpm
2009-09-23 19:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-09-23 20:04 ` Anton Vorontsov
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2009-10-12 16:24 [PATCH 1/3] mtd: m25p80: Convert " Anton Vorontsov
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