On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 03:27:34PM +0100, Miquel Raynal wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Mon, 5 Nov > 2018 14:29:49 +0100: > > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:12:27AM +0100, Miquel Raynal wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 > > > 22:10:59 +0200: > > > > > > > A new SPI NAND subsystem has been added in drivers/mtd/nand/spi/ and > > > > Micron's MT29F devices are now supported in > > > > drivers/mtd/nand/spi/micron.c. > > > > > > > > Remove the old driver. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > --- > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > If anything is missing in drivers/mtd/nand/spi/micron.c to properly > > > > support the devices supported by the mt29f_spinand driver, please let > > > > me know. > > > > I might accept to delay removal of this driver if I have some guarantees > > > > that existing users will actually switch to the new driver at some > > > > point. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Boris > > > > --- > > > > > > I plan to apply this patch but I would like your approval first. > > > > > > As a summary, the mt29f_spinand driver is a Micron SPI NAND chip > > > driver interfacing with the raw NAND API (which is 'wrong'). > > > > > > Boris has recently contributed a SPI NAND framework supporting SPI > > > NAND chips from several vendors, including Micron, that is supposed to > > > take over this driver. > > > > > > Do you see anything that should prevent us to remove it now? > > > > Not at all, I was going to add this patch to my tree right now, as I > > couldn't do anything until after 4.20-rc1 was out. Any objection from > > me just taking it that way and getting it into 4.20-final? > > I'm fine with you taking it but I have changes in the pipe that are > impacted by this removal so it would be great if this could happen > pretty early in the 4.20 release cycle (4.20-rc2?), so I will still be > able to base nand/next on top of it. If you need to work on top of this, please take it through your tree and feel free to add: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> That way I'm not holding up any work from anyone else. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
