Re: [PATCH 00/17] mtd: rawnand: cafe: Convert to exec_op() (and more)

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

+Lubomir Rintel in Cc.

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:20:10 +0200
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A bit of context to explain the motivation behind those conversions
> I've been sending for the last couple of weeks. The raw NAND subsystem
> carries a lot of history which makes any rework not only painful, but
> also subject to regressions which we only detect when someone dares to
> update its kernel on one of those ancient HW. While carrying drivers
> for old HW is not a problem per se, carrying ancient and unmaintained
> drivers that are not converted to new APIs is a maintenance burden,
> hence this massive conversion attempt I'm conducting here.
> 
> So here it is, a series converting the CAFE NAND controller driver to
> exec_op(), plus a bunch of minor improvements done along the way.
> I hope I'll find someone to test those changes, but if there's no one
> still owning OLPC HW or no interest in keeping it supported in recent
> kernel versions, we should definitely consider removing the driver
> instead.

Lubomir Rintel (in Cc) has very recently added defconfigs to Buildroot
to support the two OLPC platforms (the Intel based one and the Marvell
MMP based one). I suppose this means he has access to the hardware, so
hopefully he should be able to test these NAND driver changes.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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