From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
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Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
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Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency for M25P80)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:53:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140417105302.GA32603@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:21:44AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are introducing a new SPI-NOR library/framework for MTD, to support various
> types of SPI-NOR flash controllers which require (or benefit from) intimate
> knowledge of the flash interface, rather than just the relatively dumb SPI
> interface. This library borrows much of the m25p80 driver for its abstraction
> and moves this code into a spi-nor module.
If this is a common library, then the more common approach to solve this
would be to have each driver that uses it to select MTD_SPI_NOR rather
than depend on it. That way you can drop this whole series to update the
default configurations.
Thierry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-17 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-17 7:21 [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency for M25P80) Brian Norris
2014-04-17 7:21 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency " Brian Norris
2014-04-17 10:53 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2014-04-18 6:30 ` [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency " Brian Norris
2014-04-21 14:52 ` Marek Vasut
2014-04-17 11:07 ` Marek Vasut
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