From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:27:42 +0100 From: Boris Brezillon To: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt Cc: =?UTF-8?B?SMOldmFyZA==?= Skinnemoen , Alexandre Belloni , Andy Shevchenko , Richard Weinberger , "open list:MEMORY TECHNOLOGY..." , Nicolas Ferre , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Wenyou Yang , Josh Wu , David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , Marek Vasut , Cyrille Pitchen , linux-arm Mailing List , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , devicetree Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Message-ID: <20170224092742.3ce205e2@bbrezillon> In-Reply-To: <20170224081430.GB19663@samfundet.no> References: <20170221112641.6276c001@bbrezillon> <20170221112720.ynehsryprhrhzjla@piout.net> <20170221162133.jch6yzpotj4s7zob@piout.net> <20170221171438.e5hvruoixafpcdps@piout.net> <20170224081430.GB19663@samfundet.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Hans-Cristrian, On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:14:30 +0100 Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt wrote: > Around Thu 23 Feb 2017 21:18:13 -0800 or thereabout, H=C3=A5vard Skinnemo= en wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Alexandre Belloni > > wrote: =20 > >> On 21/02/2017 at 18:43:35 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: =20 >=20 > >=20 > >> A few weeks ago, I was telling Boris to let it not build for a while a= nd > >> then remove it. You already went out of your way to make it work. Agai= n, > >> feel free to send a patch removing avr32. I can only see a lot of > >> benefits for the Atmel ARM SoCs and the many cleanups that will follow= . =20 > >=20 > > Agree, I can't help but feel that the AVR32 support is doing more harm > > than good at this point. =20 >=20 > I also agree on this, I can relate to Nicolas (and Atmel friends) having = to > always think about the less-maintained AVR32 parts when improving drivers. Indeed, that should make atmel drivers maintainance a bit easier. >=20 > >> If nobody complains about the 4.10 breakage, You'll have plenty of time > >> to remove it for 4.12 =20 > >=20 > > I'm fine with that, but I haven't put much effort into keeping it > > alive lately. If Hans-Christian agrees, I'm willing to post a patch to > > remove it, or ack someone else's patch. =20 >=20 > Then lets plan this for 4.12, either you H=C3=A5vard whip up a patch or I= can > eventually do it. >=20 > I can push it through the linux-avr32 git tree on kernel.org. >=20 Can you do that just after 4.11-rc1 is released and provide a topic branch I can pull in my nand/next branch, so that I can rework this patch and drop all the pdata-compat code (as suggested by Andy). Thanks, Boris