Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752210AbcLERRh (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:17:37 -0500 Received: from eusmtp01.atmel.com ([212.144.249.243]:53858 "EHLO eusmtp01.atmel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752053AbcLERRf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:17:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller To: Mika Westerberg , Marek Vasut References: <20161128120626.130693-1-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> <20161205112727.GI1459@lahna.fi.intel.com> <2dac1535-de7f-47c3-2747-ba8cac854811@gmail.com> <20161205163106.GJ1459@lahna.fi.intel.com> CC: Lee Jones , Boris Brezillon , Richard Weinberger , Brian Norris , David Woodhouse , Peter Tyser , , , From: Cyrille Pitchen Message-ID: <62db8daa-7ebf-1a42-bd70-897c3c636e3c@atmel.com> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 18:17:30 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161205163106.GJ1459@lahna.fi.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.145.133.18] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1942 Lines: 47 Le 05/12/2016 ? 17:31, Mika Westerberg a ?crit : > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 02:33:12PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: >> On 12/05/2016 12:27 PM, Mika Westerberg wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:06:23PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: >>>> This is 6th iteration of the series. You can find the previous versions >>>> archived on: >>>> >>>> v5: https://lwn.net/Articles/706363/ >>>> v4: https://lwn.net/Articles/703773/ >>>> v3: https://lwn.net/Articles/697231/ >>>> v2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-June/068277.html >>>> v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/269 >>>> >>>> This patch series adds support for the Intel SPI serial flash controller >>>> found on many recent Intel CPUs including Baytrail and Braswell. This >>>> driver makes it possible to access the BIOS and other platform data which >>>> is stored on the SPI serial flash. It is also possible to upgrade the BIOS >>>> using this driver if it has not been protected by special hardware bits. >>>> >>>> The patch [1/3] includes documentation how to upgrade BIOS on MinnowBoard >>>> MAX. >>>> >>>> Since poking the SPI serial flash can brick the machine, this driver can >>>> only be enabled when CONFIG_EXPERT=y and even then it will remain read-only >>>> unless instructed othwerwise by module parameter. >>> >>> Hi Lee, >>> >>> I think we have enough acks from the MTD maintainers. I wonder if you >>> could merge this series via your MFD tree? >>> >> Ideally you'd merge 1/3 via MTD and 2,3/3 via MFD, but I'm not sure if >> that is possible and if that is a sensible thing to do. > > There is a dependency between patches 1 and 2 (and 3) so they should be > merged together to avoid build errors. I'm fine if they go via either > tree as long as someone picks them up ;-) > Hi Lee, we can take it in the mtd: spi-nor: tree if you want, just let us know whether it's fine with you or if you prefer to take it from mtd. Best regards, Cyrille