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From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
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Hi Brian,

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 05:23:38PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
[..]
> > 
> > If we do resort to a new binding for auto-buswidth, it should be a
> > generic one that all NAND drivers can use.

Why do we need yet another binding to describe something that's
completely discoverable?

I'm working on *removing* any need to set the bus width, either from the
driver or from the DT, so I see this patch as step backwards.

Can anyone help me understand if there's *any* valid use case where we
want to specify a-priori the bus width, considering it's completely
discoverable at run-time?
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com