Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add Amstrad Delta NAND support.

[Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:43:12PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 17:15 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > In particular I'm using "udelay(1);" in the read/write routines to wait
> > for the bus to settle after setting the read/write enable lines. Really
> > I want "ndelay(40);", but ndelay doesn't seem to be implemented on ARM,
> > except in terms of udelay. Can I get away with udelay(0.04)? Should I be
> > doing something else entirely?
> 
> That's a question best directed at linux-arm-kernel list.

Ok, ta.

> > +/*
> > + * These 3 functions are basically identical to the ones in nand_base.c, but
> > + * we have to call our read_byte/write_byte functions instead of readb/writeb
> > + * directly. I submitted a patch to MTD to move this to nand_base.c, but it
> > + * was deemed too intrusive.
> > + */
>
> Thomas' decision, I assume? I think he's right -- this way it can be
> inlined in the loop rather than being a real function call for every
> byte.
 
Ben Dooks. I'd actually forgotten I'd left that comment in. I'll remove
it before I submit the patch proper; it was mainly a note to people who
might have picked up my earlier version that patches nand-core as well.

J.

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