From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261860AbUK2XLq (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:11:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261882AbUK2XJh (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:09:37 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:64776 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261856AbUK2XEa (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:04:30 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] select for drivers/mtd From: David Woodhouse To: Adrian Bunk Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20041128225616.GG4390@stusta.de> References: <20041128225616.GG4390@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:04:15 +0000 Message-Id: <1101769455.6960.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 23:56 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The patch below switches options to use select where appropriate. Thanks. Applied to bk://linux-mtd.bkbits.net/mtd-2.6 to go in after 2.6.10 > One of the dependencies of MTD_GEN_PROBE was on MTD_INTELPROBE that > isn't in Linus' tree. If this symbol is present in the mtd cvs, a > similar select is needed there. It's gone now; removing it was correct. > What's the purpose of the MTD_DOCECC option, which has always the same > value as the MTD_DOCPROBE option? It's obsolescent. The new DiskOnChip hardware driver was recently converted from using it, in favour of the new Reed-Solomon library code. Some day relatively soon the old hardware driver can go too, but not yet. It's probably not worth converting that to the new ECC code. -- dwmw2