On 7/11/19 6:40 pm, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 05:35:21PM +1000, gerg@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Add a driver to support the NAND flash controller of the MediaTek MT7621
System-on-Chip device. (This one is the MIPS based parts from Mediatek).
This code is a re-working of the earlier patches for this hardware that
have been floating around the internet for years:
https://github.com/ReclaimYourPrivacy/cloak/blob/master/target/linux/ramips/patches-3.18/0045-mtd-add-mt7621-nand-support.patch
This is a much cleaned up version, put in staging to start with.
It does still have some problems, mainly that it still uses a lot of the
mtd raw nand legacy support.
Is that an issue? Why not just put it in the "real" part of the kernel
then, if those apis are still in use?
Agreed. If the MTD folks have no problem with it.
The driver not only compiles, but it works well on the small range of
hardware platforms that it has been used on so far. I have been using
for quite a while now, cleaning up as I get time.
So... I am looking for comments on the best approach forward with this.
At least in staging it can get some more eyeballs going over it.
staging will just nit-pick it to death for coding style issues, it's not
going to be get any major api changes/cleanups there usually. I'd
recommend just merging this to the "real" part of the kernel now if it's
working for you.
I'll spin a v2 based on Dan's feedback, and move it into drivers/mtd.
Thanks
Greg
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