From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Ve8pE-0001fq-2g for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:31:37 +0000 From: Marek Vasut To: Brian Norris Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: gpmi: Revert "mtd: gpmi: remove the nand_scan()" Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 20:31:08 +0100 References: <1383758172-29798-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201311062031.08728.marex@denx.de> Cc: Fabio Estevam , David Woodhouse , stable@vger.kernel.org, Huang Shijie , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Fabio Estevam List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Dear Brian Norris, > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Fabio Estevam wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Brian Norris > > > > wrote: > >> I seriously doubt that a total revert is the correct answer to this > >> problem. Can you pick up the discussion with Huang on the mailing > > > > Agree that it would be better to come up with a better localized fix > > rather than the complete revert, but I currently don't have the time > > to spend on debugging this issue. > > OK. And if Huang doesn't have the time to clean up his mess, then we > will have to revert things. I have an MX23EVK here, don't make me use it! ;-) > > On the other hand, I would not like to see mx23 broken in 3.12 because > > of this. It can't even reach the prompt. > > 3.12 is already out the door, so we now have some time to get a proper > fix into -stable. > > >> list, or at least explain what the actual root cause is? Have you been > >> going through some private communication on this issue? A proper > >> bugfix with an identified issue is preferable to a blind revert. > > > > No private communication. I reported this issue in the mailing list: > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2013-November/049641.html > > Right. But this ended with you pointing Huang to the right U-boot > setup, then everything went silent. And today, I get a blunt revert > request from you as well as an independent DMA fix from Huang. Since > you guys are both from Freescale, I wasn't sure if there was any > coordination/correlation, or if this is really as uncoordinated as it > looks. Left hand doesn't know what the right one does in such big companies :( Best regards, Marek Vasut