From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd/m25p80: add device tree probe support Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 04:15:18 +0200 References: <1311601063-16581-1-git-send-email-shawn.guo@linaro.org> <4E31B713.1030901@free.fr> <20110728214521.GA4674@ponder.secretlab.ca> In-Reply-To: <20110728214521.GA4674@ponder.secretlab.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201206230415.18833.marex@denx.de> Cc: Shawn Guo , manu , patches@linaro.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, Grant Likely , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Artem Bityutskiy List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Dear Grant Likely, > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:22:59PM +0200, manu wrote: > > Dear Grant, Shawn, > > I don't this patch is required as m25p** serial flashes are > > supported already with generic OF/SPI and OF/MTD schemes. > > I have successfully used it myself on an unmodified 2.6.36.3 vanilla > > kernel on a xilinx/powerpc platform with a m25p32 part from STM. > > You will find attached the corresponding working defconfig + dts > > files (appart from partitions which I didn't managed to configure > > properly...). > > Best Regards, > > > > Manuel > > There is a heuristic which allows spi and i2c devices to get bound > without a match table, which is why it works for you, but there is no > guarantee that the heuristic will continue to exist in the long term. > This is still probably the right thing to do. > > g. So is there any particular reason why this wasn't applied? Best regards, Marek Vasut