From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select for drivers/mtd
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:04:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101769455.6960.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041128225616.GG4390@stusta.de>
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 23:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The patch below switches options to use select where appropriate.
Thanks. Applied to bk://linux-mtd.bkbits.net/mtd-2.6 to go in after
2.6.10
> One of the dependencies of MTD_GEN_PROBE was on MTD_INTELPROBE that
> isn't in Linus' tree. If this symbol is present in the mtd cvs, a
> similar select is needed there.
It's gone now; removing it was correct.
> What's the purpose of the MTD_DOCECC option, which has always the same
> value as the MTD_DOCPROBE option?
It's obsolescent. The new DiskOnChip hardware driver was recently
converted from using it, in favour of the new Reed-Solomon library code.
Some day relatively soon the old hardware driver can go too, but not
yet. It's probably not worth converting that to the new ECC code.
--
dwmw2
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2004-11-28 22:56 [2.6 patch] select for drivers/mtd Adrian Bunk
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