Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:02:38 +0100
From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
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        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
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        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
        Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 20:03:28 +0100
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:

> Am 06.03.2017 um 18:21 schrieb Alban:
> > On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 23:21:29 +0100
> > Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> >   
> >> Am 03.03.2017 um 15:11 schrieb Boris Brezillon:  
> >>>> And add a list of successfully added notifiers, along with their
> >>>> data pointer, to the MTD device. That's simple and would also remove
> >>>> the need for notifier to have a private list of their instances as I
> >>>> had to do here.    
> >>>
> >>> And then you're abusing the notifier concept. As said earlier, a
> >>> notifier is not necessarily using the device, and thus, don't
> >>> necessarily need private data.
> >>> It's not only about what is the simplest solution for your use case,
> >>> but also what other users want/need.    
> >>
> >> Yes, please don't use the mtd_notifier.
> >> I strongly vote to embed the nvmem pointer into struct mtd_info.  
> > 
> > Ok, I'll do that. However it mean it will have to stays in
> > drivers/mtd as it then become part of the MTD core.  
> 
> Brian, are you fine with this?

Same question to Srinivas.