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Subject: Re: Flash driver probe/commandset separation.
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From: ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 03 May 2001 11:32:14 -0600
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:

> nico@cam.org said:
> >  Personally I think it would be best to send the curent code to Linus
> > and resend another update eventually when the new stuff would have
> > been proven stable.
> 
> > 	"release early, release often" 
> 
> Yes, you're probably right.
> 
> TODO list then:
> 
> 	1. Make cfi_cmdset_000[12].c compile again :)
> 	2. Fix the partition stuff as discussed, removing VIRTUAL_ER
> 	3. Sanity check DiskOnChip and NFTL drivers. 
        4. Don't hardcode the cmdset in cfi_jedec.

I keep using very different flash chips so I want one probe path for
all of the chips looks good. 

Note there is a good argument for joining the probe paths
Handling chip interleaving, unless we can make it simple
we don't want that duplicated many times.

I'll try to have something working for 2 & 4 by the end of today.  Any
hints on why the cmdset drivers don't compile?

Eric