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Brian, Ionela:

On 11/06/2014 03:03 PM, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
> On 11/06/14 17:44, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 05:32:43PM +0000, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
>>> On 11/06/14 16:05, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 03:51:17PM +0000, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
[snip]
>>>
>>> For now I am submitting this for staging, but I am interested in having
>>> a discussion about the best way to integrate it and hopefully merge
>>> this in drivers/mtd/spinand/.

[..]
>> Then why not just go directly for drivers/mtd/?  Why even stop at
>> drivers/staging/ at all?  I need an ACK from the MTD maintainer to get
>> this into staging as well.
>>
> of that generic framework and this is what I want to start here.
> Therefore, I've added in staging this initial version, because as I see
> thing, we can either find the good way to do it, detailed above, or have it
> as it is, in staging.
> 

How about picking Sourav's v2 as a starting point:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2013-July/047434.html

And then try to use that to support Micron's MT29F and Gigadevice's GD5F ?

Brian: Any ideas or suggestion on how to proceed?
-- 
Ezequiel