On Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 09:21:44 AM, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi all, > > We are introducing a new SPI-NOR library/framework for MTD, to support > various types of SPI-NOR flash controllers which require (or benefit from) > intimate knowledge of the flash interface, rather than just the relatively > dumb SPI interface. This library borrows much of the m25p80 driver for its > abstraction and moves this code into a spi-nor module. > > This means CONFIG_M25P80 now has a dependency on CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR, which > should be added to the defconfigs. I'm not sure what is the best process > for doing this. Should each $ARCH maintainer just take their respective > patch, even if the MTD_SPI_NOR Kconfig symbol is not defined for them yet? > Or should maintainers plan on merging the relevant SPI-NOR code into their > trees during the development cycle? Or some third option? Shouldn't the M25P80 driver just "select" the SPI NOR framework? Then you won't need the adjustment to defconfigs at all I think. Best regards, Marek Vasut
