Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161276AbaDQKyR (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2014 06:54:17 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f47.google.com ([74.125.83.47]:51810 "EHLO mail-ee0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753942AbaDQKyN (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2014 06:54:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:53:03 +0200 From: Thierry Reding To: Brian Norris Cc: Linux Kernel , Marek Vasut , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Russell King , Shawn Guo , Sascha Hauer , Stephen Warren , Olof Johansson , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, Steven Miao , adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (dependency for M25P80) Message-ID: <20140417105302.GA32603@ulmo> References: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1397719309-2022-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:21:44AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > We are introducing a new SPI-NOR library/framework for MTD, to support va= rious > types of SPI-NOR flash controllers which require (or benefit from) intima= te > knowledge of the flash interface, rather than just the relatively dumb SPI > interface. This library borrows much of the m25p80 driver for its abstrac= tion > and moves this code into a spi-nor module. If this is a common library, then the more common approach to solve this would be to have each driver that uses it to select MTD_SPI_NOR rather than depend on it. That way you can drop this whole series to update the default configurations. Thierry --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTT7KNAAoJEN0jrNd/PrOhzhQP/3ocjlUpPSUcBT7myTaYn8dC zbZ0Zp5MO34d42OXHqfYC0q6LiCYp4I6xQDn8usqKBxpHd1dBAirD0z7Ofp3nAo5 JwH+vr8zDZNTZcQd5W/LRI90fa/9qVNytVFNSEbmeNUop74+yhnQb//rq3YCskEZ v8rHJpH7uaJUPeVTsvrbmtW/9ZW5+ofFWj2JffogOyC4NY/oOldXl4gsOcP+PuF7 gFdIn+D+hyEa2ZLjdeYD9lIvmLHczXhda0KPDZO31gDQyHvgMt+goUUgtWlqfHv+ 8cuKJjhHeMhMYtdZByrYRRVuhlafZlLJ2PqmunFCgsd/1P9Ww+k+nZJASw8jFqbd nGxDcgXG/4vfiFj0HMZoR/cWh845wYrWXdzaZdmY0bjiHEsz1ip+OVNq5ACq+d+L 9posY8HH1btDrrcJEsce4DTHTJsAYdeX0oik8DK+gHi5no7sd8Twd2ZjJaZxtwXk pH+RZqVa3Wrj68vCXuyTZSFZb/QC/ZttUgW5YhfVcQJcsOC02+LRKOIbu0Em8hMq 3sdsgTImKHFAEdWm4oNOHlOPN4nk/tMRo3nrCUV4Pb+yaCelIBlKo/9JLK0JfDQJ /qPtjG0OAPJYmHmwPcSB57kA/MZlF6RnNI1V8CHWOCQm94NwGirKBropQ/9yLxs7 lrnTat974tXvX/gLJ7Do =Xz6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/