Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: allow NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE to be set from driver

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 09:28 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> The NAND_CHIPOPTIONS_MSK has limited utility and is causing real bugs. It
> silently masks off at least one flag that might be set by the driver
> (NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE). This breaks the GPMI NAND driver and possibly
> others.
> 
> Really, as long as driver writers exercise a small amount of care with
> NAND_* options, this mask is not necessary at all; it was only here to
> prevent certain options from accidentally being set by the driver. But the
> original thought turns out to be a bad idea occasionally. Thus, kill it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>

Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks.

> If this is acceptable, should it go to -stable, since it fixes some major
> gpmi-nand breakage? It probably won't apply directly, since I've touched some
> code around it recently.

Done.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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