From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pd0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22a]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1YxWUU-0005u7-BF for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 27 May 2015 08:15:07 +0000 Received: by pdea3 with SMTP id a3so4332312pde.2 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 01:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 01:14:39 -0700 From: Brian Norris To: Sumit Semwal Subject: Re: Reg status of mtd: nand: Allow NAND chip ids to be included standalone Message-ID: <20150527081439.GF23718@brian-ubuntu> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: mnalajal@codeaurora.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Sumit, On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:28:16PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote: > Hello, > > As part of Linaro's Android Upstreaming effort, we were revisiting > outstanding patches, and realised that this patch [1] isn't yet > upstream. > > I asked Artem for his advice (in a personal email), and he kindly > pointed me to ask on the mailing list as well - so could anyone please > let me know if there was something pending with this patch, or did it > just get missed? > > If it just got missed, I could help with re-submitting it if required, > so it can get queued up. > > Thanks very much! > > [1] : http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/85874/ I fully agree with Artem's comment from 4 years ago: "No, I think you should "sell" your driver better than that." Your msm_nand driver should be rewritten to use nand_base properly, at which point your linked patch would be unnecessary. IOW, the linked patch is now officially "Rejected". Brian