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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Remove the mt29f_spinand driver
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On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:12:27AM +0100, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote on Mon, 22 Oct 2018
> 22:10:59 +0200:
> 
> > A new SPI NAND subsystem has been added in drivers/mtd/nand/spi/ and
> > Micron's MT29F devices are now supported in
> > drivers/mtd/nand/spi/micron.c.
> > 
> > Remove the old driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
> > ---
> > Hello,
> > 
> > If anything is missing in drivers/mtd/nand/spi/micron.c to properly
> > support the devices supported by the mt29f_spinand driver, please let
> > me know.
> > I might accept to delay removal of this driver if I have some guarantees
> > that existing users will actually switch to the new driver at some
> > point.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Boris
> > ---
> 
> I plan to apply this patch but I would like your approval first.
> 
> As a summary, the mt29f_spinand driver is a Micron SPI NAND chip
> driver interfacing with the raw NAND API (which is 'wrong').
> 
> Boris has recently contributed a SPI NAND framework supporting SPI
> NAND chips from several vendors, including Micron, that is supposed to
> take over this driver.
> 
> Do you see anything that should prevent us to remove it now?

Not at all, I was going to add this patch to my tree right now, as I
couldn't do anything until after 4.20-rc1 was out.  Any objection from
me just taking it that way and getting it into 4.20-final?

thanks,

greg k-h