Re: [PATCH 00/27] Fix common bug in most nand drivers not showing a device in sysfs

[Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>]

Hello,

I wonder if anyone else will fix this in a maintainer-approved style 
which doesn't use these evil leftovers from C666 called functions.

Or will the sysfs for most NAND drivers be knowingly broken forever?

Regards,

Alexander Holler

Am 27.05.2014 00:12, schrieb Alexander Holler:
> A comment in mtdcore.c function add_mtd_device() which is called by
> mtd_device_parse_register() made me wonder:
>
> "Caller should have set dev.parent to match the physical device."
>
> In fact this is not done by most nand drivers.
>
> What follows is a series which fixes this.
>
> Tested: orion and omap2
> Compile-Tested: atmel, gpio, fsmc, gpmi, plat, pxa3xx, s3c2410, sh_flctl,
> 		sharpsl, tmio, docg4, davinci, lpc32xx_mlc, lpc32xx_slc, mxc
> Not tested at all (only be view, patches 19-27): bcm47, fsl_elbc, fsl_upm,
> 		fsl_ifc, jz4740, mpc5121m, ndfc, txx9ndfmx, socrates
>
> The overall stat is
>
> 27 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>
> and it fixes 21 of these bugs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alexander Holler
>
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