From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: flash_platform_data namespace collision Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:47:59 -0600 Message-ID: <1263664079.29868.6289.camel@calx> References: <1263620475.29868.6280.camel@calx> <20100116110420.GB31282@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100116110420.GB31282@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Russell King Cc: David Brownell , David Woodhouse , Linux Mailing List , linux-embedded On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 11:04 +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:41:15PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > I've got a board here with SPI, NOR, and NAND flash devices and I've > > just run into a namespace collision on flash_platform_data from > > The one in arch/arm/include/asm/mach/flash.h is designed to have great > appeal and flexibility across different platforms, and indeed we have > at least 70 users across six different MTD NOR flash drivers and two > MTD NAND drivers. > > If anything, I believe that this header should move into linux/mtd/ > and become a standard structure for platforms to communicate their > requirements to flash drivers. Yeah, I think this is probably the way to go. Davids, any objections? -- http://selenic.com : development and support for Mercurial and Linux