From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161080AbWAHAZA (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 19:25:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030618AbWAHAZA (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 19:25:00 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:41479 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030501AbWAHAY7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 19:24:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:24:57 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: David Woodhouse Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] no longer mark MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS as BROKEN and remove broken MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS drivers Message-ID: <20060108002457.GE3774@stusta.de> References: <20060107220702.GZ3774@stusta.de> <1136678409.30348.26.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1136678409.30348.26.camel@pmac.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:00:09AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:07 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch brings the MTD_SHARP driver back into life and removes the > > non-compiling MTD_AMDSTD and MTD_JEDEC with everything depending on > > them. > > Please provide further background on your reasoning. I'll enumerate my > questions to make it easy for you to answer each one fully. > > 1. Precisely when were these chip drivers marked obsolete? Since kernel 2.4.11-pre4, released Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:47:23 -0700. > 2. What was the reason for marking them obsolete? The changelog says: - David Woodhouse: large MTD and JFFS[2] update > 3. What are the factors which led you to conclude that _now_ is the time > to actually remove them? http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/12/43 > 4. What are the factors which led you to _remove_ the map drivers which > currently use the obsolete chip drivers, rather than taking the obvious > alternative solution for those map drivers? It seems that for one and a half years noone considered it a problem that they were no longer available... > dwmw2 cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed