From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:32:04 +1100 From: David Gibson To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add local bus device nodes to MPC837xMDS device trees. Message-ID: <20080311013204.GJ11559@localhost.localdomain> References: <1204800155-11613-1-git-send-email-leoli@freescale.com> <9f7d0248e911f6fa1a2d4292c96ef72e@kernel.crashing.org> <20080310235429.GC11559@localhost.localdomain> <200803110143.50561.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <200803110143.50561.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Li Yang , paulus@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:43:49AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2008, David Gibson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 04:39:30AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > > > This isn't a problem with this device tree, but it's probably time we > > > > started establishing some conventional generic names for nand flash > > > > and board-control devices. > > > > > > > > So, to start the ball rolling, I've seen several names for nand flash > > > > nodes, I'd suggest we standardise on "nand-flash". > > > > > > What's wrong with the already well-established generic name "flash"? > > > > I was concerned that using "flash" for both NOR flash (which it > > already is) and NAND flash might be unwise.  I am quite open to being > > convinced otherwise, though. > > One argument for just using "flash" is that there are much finer differences > than just "NAND" and "NOR", with at least "dataflash", "OneNAND", "SD/MMC" > being further types of flash that don't fit the categories exactly, though > each one for different reasons. > > For SD/MMC, there are good reasons to use something completely different, > for the others, calling them all "flash" sounds better than fitting them > into "nand" and "nor". Ok, I'm convinced. "flash" it is. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson