[PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver

[egtvedt@samfundet.no (Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt)]

Around Thu 23 Feb 2017 21:18:13 -0800 or thereabout, H?vard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> On 21/02/2017 at 18:43:35 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

<snipp>

>> A few weeks ago, I was telling Boris to let it not build for a while and
>> then remove it. You already went out of your way to make it work. Again,
>> feel free to send a patch removing avr32. I can only see a lot of
>> benefits for the Atmel ARM SoCs and the many cleanups that will follow.
> 
> Agree, I can't help but feel that the AVR32 support is doing more harm
> than good at this point.

I also agree on this, I can relate to Nicolas (and Atmel friends) having to
always think about the less-maintained AVR32 parts when improving drivers.

>> If nobody complains about the 4.10 breakage, You'll have plenty of time
>> to remove it for 4.12
> 
> I'm fine with that, but I haven't put much effort into keeping it
> alive lately. If Hans-Christian agrees, I'm willing to post a patch to
> remove it, or ack someone else's patch.

Then lets plan this for 4.12, either you H?vard whip up a patch or I can
eventually do it.

I can push it through the linux-avr32 git tree on kernel.org.

-- 
mvh
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt