From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Cleanups for physmap_of.c (v2)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:00:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070921010055.GB4124@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93451aaa11582c2db3be55961514cce9@kernel.crashing.org>
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:11:59PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > - (the big one) Despite the name, this driver really has
> > nothing to do with drivers/mtd/physmap.c. The fact that the flash
> > chips must be physically direct mapped is a constrant, but doesn't
> > really say anything about the actual purpose of this driver, which is
> > to instantiate MTD devices based on information from the device tree.
> > Therefore the physmap name is replaced everywhere within the file with
> > "of_flash".
>
> Do you think this code will handle NAND flash later, too? If not,
> maybe "of_norflash" is better?
Uh.. maybe? I guess we can either extend it or rename it in the
future sometime.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-21 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 1:22 Cleanups for physmap_of.c (v2) David Gibson
2007-09-20 12:33 ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-20 17:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-21 1:00 ` David Gibson [this message]
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