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

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:37:35 +0200
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Oh, that's great news! Thanks a lot for letting me know.

Lubomir, let me know if you'd be okay to test those changes. I can
provide a branch if that's easier.

Regards,

Boris

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