Date:   Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:29:46 -0600
From:   Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>
To:     Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@ti.com>, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc:     Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>,
        Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>,
        Potin Lai <potin.lai@quantatw.com>,
        linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: aspeed-smc: improve probe resilience
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:04:13PM +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> Hi,
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> On 29/12/21 08:33AM, Patrick Williams wrote:
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> The patch itself looks fine to me but we no longer want to maintain=20
> drivers under drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/. They should be moved to=
=20
> implement the SPI MEM API (under drivers/spi/).

Is the linux-aspeed community aware of this?  Are you saying you don't want=
 to
take fixes for their driver into the MTD tree?  Can it be pulled into the A=
speed
tree?

> Could you please volunteer to do the conversion for this driver?

I'm not personally going to be able to get to it for at least the next 3 mo=
nths.

It looks like we don't have a dedicated maintainer for this driver other th=
an
Joel by nature of him being listed as the maintainer of "ARM/ASPEED MACHINE
SUPPORT".  I'm not sure if Aspeed themselves are planning on doing the nece=
ssary
refactoring here.


Joel, are you aware of this driver using a deprecated implementation?  Were
there anyone planning to do the reworks that you are aware of?  I'd like to=
 get
this fix at least into the OpenBMC kernel tree because I'm seeing this fail=
 in
the real world.

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Patrick Williams

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