From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from imap.sh.mvista.com (unknown [63.81.120.155]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60DCDDFFC for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 05:14:55 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <46631389.2060901@ru.mvista.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:16:25 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Create "rom" (MTD) device prpmc2800 References: <7fc919fce0761f861be3069a853d3169@bga.com> <1180769992.14025.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4662E7EA.70506@ru.mvista.com> <46630256.8050909@ru.mvista.com> <46630A32.7000403@ru.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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: , Segher Boessenkool wrote: >>>> Nobody's talking about the direct match but making the task of >>>> selecting a proper driver more complex by specifying the details >>>> that don't help (if not hinder) the correct selection is certainly >>>> not a way to go. >>> Nonsense. If the kernel doesn't care about certain details, >>> it can just ignore them. >> That's OK, as long as it has the details it needs. Your suggestions >> on the "compatible" devoided it of such. > Sigh. There had been no suggestions about other props or using "ranges" at that point. That wouldn't have covered all issues anyway. > [snip] >>>> 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. >>> So go fix that :-) >> Wanna pay me for that? ;-) > You're the one complaining, you go pay yourself. I'm lost here. Complaining about what? > [snip, plunk] > Segher WBR, Sergei