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From: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] mtd: add OF2PDEV convertor for the NDFC driver
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* Arnd Bergmann | 2008-08-21 00:40:58 [+0200]:

>On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
>> I didn't convert the NDFC driver to support OF because there are
>> non-OF-aware platforms with the ndfc chip.
>> All settings are mandatory except the oob layout.
>
>Are you aware of Sean's patch from
>http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=20183 ?

Yes, I heard of it. tglx told me that the IP-Core might show up in
non-IBM HW and it would be better not to drop the platform support.

>	Arnd <><
Sebastian