From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from canuck.infradead.org (canuck.infradead.org [209.217.80.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84920DDE37 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 00:48:16 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Create "rom" (MTD) device prpmc2800 From: David Woodhouse To: Sergei Shtylyov In-Reply-To: <46630256.8050909@ru.mvista.com> References: <7fc919fce0761f861be3069a853d3169@bga.com> <1180769992.14025.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4662E7EA.70506@ru.mvista.com> <46630256.8050909@ru.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:47:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1181227676.2785.47.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: ppcdev , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Milton Miller List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 22:03 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > That's the way the cookie crumbles in Linux MTD for now. It's > *always* detecting this by probing -- you only can say what [not] to > probe. You could hook it up to the chip drivers directly if you want, and bypass the probe code. I'm not sure it's worth it. -- dwmw2