From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] mtd: spi-nor: add a new framework for SPI NOR Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:42:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20140410074253.GD4214@lee--X1> References: <1393238262-8622-1-git-send-email-b32955@freescale.com> <20140312081350.GC30808@shlinux2.ap.freescale.net> <20140313063940.GU31517@norris-Latitude-E6410> <20140409033603.GA32070@ld-irv-0074> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140409033603.GA32070@ld-irv-0074> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Norris Cc: Huang Shijie , dwmw2@infradead.org, angus.clark@st.com, pekon@ti.com, sourav.poddar@ti.com, broonie@linaro.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, b44548@freescale.com, b18965@freescale.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, shawn.guo@linaro.org, Marek Vasut List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org > + Lee, Marek >=20 > Hi Huang, >=20 > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:39:40PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:13:51PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:37:34PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote: > > > Could you please review this patch set? I really hope it can b= e merged > > > as soon as possibel. But now, the patch set has stalled for a= long time. > >=20 > > I'm sorry for the delay. Others are in the same position of delay (= e.g., > > Lee's SPI-NOR driver), because I simply have not had the time to re= ally > > devote this the attention it deserves, especially considering how i= t > > rearchitects such an important, commonly-used driver. > >=20 > > Nonetheless, I will try to give your patches some more attention so= on. > >=20 > > > Since you have pushed the patches for m25p80.c, i have to reba= se this > > > patch set again and again... > >=20 > > You mean locally? I promise you, I can handle rebasing on my review= ing > > end for small one-line conflicts like new chip IDs, so don't rebase= and > > resend simply for that. Unless I find substantive things that you s= hould > > change, I'd only expect at most one more rebase to be necessary. >=20 > Unfortunately, I did not get the time to review and test this > sufficiently for the 3.15 merge window, but to avoid further delay, I= 've > queued it up in l2-mtd.git [1] under its own branch for now. I rebase= d > it myself, to accommodate for changes to m25p80.c since your submissi= on. > Please take a look at the branch. >=20 > If all goes well, I should merge the spinor branch into master some t= ime > after the 3.15 merge window closes, so it will get linux-next testing= =2E > For any additional comments/corrections (I have a few), please just > submit patches on top, rather than resending the whole series. >=20 > Marek, what was your opinion on this series? Last response I saw was > "looking good"; is that an Ack? Or did you have any more gating > requests? >=20 > Personally, I think it looks ready enough, and it's better to merge t= his > than not. I was able to test with my platforms, with no regression. >=20 > Lee, I have a few patches that do some trivial unification of your ST > SPI FSM driver and the SPI-NOR framework. I plan to send these out > soon, and I will begin applying any ST-FSM patches to the same spinor > branch along with Huang's code. I hope that you can spend some effort= on > improving integration within the next few months in preparation for > 3.16, when I expect this to all go upstream. I certainly plan to. Although, I'm up to my neck in the ST BCH NAND driver at the moment. Trying to re-spin something that'll be accepted i.e. more intensive use of the framework. Quick question, is there a chat medium for MTD? Somewhere for quick-fire questions i.e. an IRC channel or similar? > [1] branch spinor, at http://git.infradead.org/l2-mtd.git --=20 Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org =E2=94=82 Open source software for ARM SoCs =46ollow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog