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[84.46.29.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q49sm66291834eem.34.2014.04.17.03.54.09 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 17 Apr 2014 03:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:53:03 +0200 From: Thierry Reding To: Brian Norris Cc: Linux Kernel , Marek Vasut , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Russell King , Shawn Guo , Sascha Hauer , Stephen Warren , Olof Johansson , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, Steven Miao , adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency for M25P80) Message-ID: <20140417105302.GA32603@ulmo> References: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 39849 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: thierry.reding@gmail.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:21:44AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > We are introducing a new SPI-NOR library/framework for MTD, to support va= rious > types of SPI-NOR flash controllers which require (or benefit from) intima= te > knowledge of the flash interface, rather than just the relatively dumb SPI > interface. This library borrows much of the m25p80 driver for its abstrac= tion > and moves this code into a spi-nor module. If this is a common library, then the more common approach to solve this would be to have each driver that uses it to select MTD_SPI_NOR rather than depend on it. That way you can drop this whole series to update the default configurations. Thierry --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTT7KNAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhzhQP/3ocjlUpPSUcBT7myTaYn8dC zbZ0Zp5MO34d42OXHqfYC0q6LiCYp4I6xQDn8usqKBxpHd1dBAirD0z7Ofp3nAo5 JwH+vr8zDZNTZcQd5W/LRI90fa/9qVNytVFNSEbmeNUop74+yhnQb//rq3YCskEZ v8rHJpH7uaJUPeVTsvrbmtW/9ZW5+ofFWj2JffogOyC4NY/oOldXl4gsOcP+PuF7 gFdIn+D+hyEa2ZLjdeYD9lIvmLHczXhda0KPDZO31gDQyHvgMt+goUUgtWlqfHv+ 8cuKJjhHeMhMYtdZByrYRRVuhlafZlLJ2PqmunFCgsd/1P9Ww+k+nZJASw8jFqbd nGxDcgXG/4vfiFj0HMZoR/cWh845wYrWXdzaZdmY0bjiHEsz1ip+OVNq5ACq+d+L 9posY8HH1btDrrcJEsce4DTHTJsAYdeX0oik8DK+gHi5no7sd8Twd2ZjJaZxtwXk pH+RZqVa3Wrj68vCXuyTZSFZb/QC/ZttUgW5YhfVcQJcsOC02+LRKOIbu0Em8hMq 3sdsgTImKHFAEdWm4oNOHlOPN4nk/tMRo3nrCUV4Pb+yaCelIBlKo/9JLK0JfDQJ /qPtjG0OAPJYmHmwPcSB57kA/MZlF6RnNI1V8CHWOCQm94NwGirKBropQ/9yLxs7 lrnTat974tXvX/gLJ7Do =Xz6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:53:03 +0200 From: Thierry Reding To: Brian Norris Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency for M25P80) Message-ID: <20140417105302.GA32603@ulmo> References: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: Marek Vasut , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Russell King , Stephen Warren , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Steven Miao , Linux Kernel , Ralf Baechle , adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Sascha Hauer , Olof Johansson , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Shawn Guo List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:21:44AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > We are introducing a new SPI-NOR library/framework for MTD, to support va= rious > types of SPI-NOR flash controllers which require (or benefit from) intima= te > knowledge of the flash interface, rather than just the relatively dumb SPI > interface. This library borrows much of the m25p80 driver for its abstrac= tion > and moves this code into a spi-nor module. If this is a common library, then the more common approach to solve this would be to have each driver that uses it to select MTD_SPI_NOR rather than depend on it. That way you can drop this whole series to update the default configurations. Thierry --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTT7KNAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhzhQP/3ocjlUpPSUcBT7myTaYn8dC zbZ0Zp5MO34d42OXHqfYC0q6LiCYp4I6xQDn8usqKBxpHd1dBAirD0z7Ofp3nAo5 JwH+vr8zDZNTZcQd5W/LRI90fa/9qVNytVFNSEbmeNUop74+yhnQb//rq3YCskEZ v8rHJpH7uaJUPeVTsvrbmtW/9ZW5+ofFWj2JffogOyC4NY/oOldXl4gsOcP+PuF7 gFdIn+D+hyEa2ZLjdeYD9lIvmLHczXhda0KPDZO31gDQyHvgMt+goUUgtWlqfHv+ 8cuKJjhHeMhMYtdZByrYRRVuhlafZlLJ2PqmunFCgsd/1P9Ww+k+nZJASw8jFqbd nGxDcgXG/4vfiFj0HMZoR/cWh845wYrWXdzaZdmY0bjiHEsz1ip+OVNq5ACq+d+L 9posY8HH1btDrrcJEsce4DTHTJsAYdeX0oik8DK+gHi5no7sd8Twd2ZjJaZxtwXk pH+RZqVa3Wrj68vCXuyTZSFZb/QC/ZttUgW5YhfVcQJcsOC02+LRKOIbu0Em8hMq 3sdsgTImKHFAEdWm4oNOHlOPN4nk/tMRo3nrCUV4Pb+yaCelIBlKo/9JLK0JfDQJ /qPtjG0OAPJYmHmwPcSB57kA/MZlF6RnNI1V8CHWOCQm94NwGirKBropQ/9yLxs7 lrnTat974tXvX/gLJ7Do =Xz6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thierry Reding Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:53:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency for M25P80) Message-Id: <20140417105302.GA32603@ulmo> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" List-Id: References: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:21:44AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > We are introducing a new SPI-NOR library/framework for MTD, to support va= rious > types of SPI-NOR flash controllers which require (or benefit from) intima= te > knowledge of the flash interface, rather than just the relatively dumb SPI > interface. This library borrows much of the m25p80 driver for its abstrac= tion > and moves this code into a spi-nor module. If this is a common library, then the more common approach to solve this would be to have each driver that uses it to select MTD_SPI_NOR rather than depend on it. That way you can drop this whole series to update the default configurations. Thierry --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTT7KNAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhzhQP/3ocjlUpPSUcBT7myTaYn8dC zbZ0Zp5MO34d42OXHqfYC0q6LiCYp4I6xQDn8usqKBxpHd1dBAirD0z7Ofp3nAo5 JwH+vr8zDZNTZcQd5W/LRI90fa/9qVNytVFNSEbmeNUop74+yhnQb//rq3YCskEZ v8rHJpH7uaJUPeVTsvrbmtW/9ZW5+ofFWj2JffogOyC4NY/oOldXl4gsOcP+PuF7 gFdIn+D+hyEa2ZLjdeYD9lIvmLHczXhda0KPDZO31gDQyHvgMt+goUUgtWlqfHv+ 8cuKJjhHeMhMYtdZByrYRRVuhlafZlLJ2PqmunFCgsd/1P9Ww+k+nZJASw8jFqbd nGxDcgXG/4vfiFj0HMZoR/cWh845wYrWXdzaZdmY0bjiHEsz1ip+OVNq5ACq+d+L 9posY8HH1btDrrcJEsce4DTHTJsAYdeX0oik8DK+gHi5no7sd8Twd2ZjJaZxtwXk pH+RZqVa3Wrj68vCXuyTZSFZb/QC/ZttUgW5YhfVcQJcsOC02+LRKOIbu0Em8hMq 3sdsgTImKHFAEdWm4oNOHlOPN4nk/tMRo3nrCUV4Pb+yaCelIBlKo/9JLK0JfDQJ /qPtjG0OAPJYmHmwPcSB57kA/MZlF6RnNI1V8CHWOCQm94NwGirKBropQ/9yLxs7 lrnTat974tXvX/gLJ7Do =Xz6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com (mail-ee0-f46.google.com [74.125.83.46]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEB1E140077 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:54:16 +1000 (EST) Received: by mail-ee0-f46.google.com with SMTP id t10so511944eei.19 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 03:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:53:03 +0200 From: Thierry Reding To: Brian Norris Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency for M25P80) Message-ID: <20140417105302.GA32603@ulmo> References: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" In-Reply-To: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: Marek Vasut , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Russell King , Stephen Warren , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Steven Miao , Linux Kernel , Ralf Baechle , adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Sascha Hauer , Olof Johansson , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Shawn Guo List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:21:44AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > We are introducing a new SPI-NOR library/framework for MTD, to support va= rious > types of SPI-NOR flash controllers which require (or benefit from) intima= te > knowledge of the flash interface, rather than just the relatively dumb SPI > interface. This library borrows much of the m25p80 driver for its abstrac= tion > and moves this code into a spi-nor module. If this is a common library, then the more common approach to solve this would be to have each driver that uses it to select MTD_SPI_NOR rather than depend on it. That way you can drop this whole series to update the default configurations. Thierry --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTT7KNAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhzhQP/3ocjlUpPSUcBT7myTaYn8dC zbZ0Zp5MO34d42OXHqfYC0q6LiCYp4I6xQDn8usqKBxpHd1dBAirD0z7Ofp3nAo5 JwH+vr8zDZNTZcQd5W/LRI90fa/9qVNytVFNSEbmeNUop74+yhnQb//rq3YCskEZ v8rHJpH7uaJUPeVTsvrbmtW/9ZW5+ofFWj2JffogOyC4NY/oOldXl4gsOcP+PuF7 gFdIn+D+hyEa2ZLjdeYD9lIvmLHczXhda0KPDZO31gDQyHvgMt+goUUgtWlqfHv+ 8cuKJjhHeMhMYtdZByrYRRVuhlafZlLJ2PqmunFCgsd/1P9Ww+k+nZJASw8jFqbd nGxDcgXG/4vfiFj0HMZoR/cWh845wYrWXdzaZdmY0bjiHEsz1ip+OVNq5ACq+d+L 9posY8HH1btDrrcJEsce4DTHTJsAYdeX0oik8DK+gHi5no7sd8Twd2ZjJaZxtwXk pH+RZqVa3Wrj68vCXuyTZSFZb/QC/ZttUgW5YhfVcQJcsOC02+LRKOIbu0Em8hMq 3sdsgTImKHFAEdWm4oNOHlOPN4nk/tMRo3nrCUV4Pb+yaCelIBlKo/9JLK0JfDQJ /qPtjG0OAPJYmHmwPcSB57kA/MZlF6RnNI1V8CHWOCQm94NwGirKBropQ/9yLxs7 lrnTat974tXvX/gLJ7Do =Xz6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: thierry.reding@gmail.com (Thierry Reding) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:53:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency for M25P80) In-Reply-To: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> References: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20140417105302.GA32603@ulmo> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:21:44AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi all, > > We are introducing a new SPI-NOR library/framework for MTD, to support various > types of SPI-NOR flash controllers which require (or benefit from) intimate > knowledge of the flash interface, rather than just the relatively dumb SPI > interface. This library borrows much of the m25p80 driver for its abstraction > and moves this code into a spi-nor module. If this is a common library, then the more common approach to solve this would be to have each driver that uses it to select MTD_SPI_NOR rather than depend on it. That way you can drop this whole series to update the default configurations. Thierry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: