Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764043AbXIMUcF (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:32:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932186AbXIMUbs (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:31:48 -0400 Received: from nwd2mail11.analog.com ([137.71.25.57]:46950 "EHLO nwd2mail11.analog.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765655AbXIMUbr (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:31:47 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.20,251,1186372800"; d="scan'208"; a="39576076:sNHT33638983" From: Robin Getz Organization: Blackfin uClinux org To: "Josh Boyer" Subject: Re: [patch] update CFI URI n mtd kconfig Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:31:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: "Mike Frysinger" , "Andrew Morton" , "LKML" , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org References: <200709122339.55267.vapier@gentoo.org> <625fc13d0709131128m5a606b6ewe729c1e72f73f9d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0709131128m5a606b6ewe729c1e72f73f9d9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709131631.56867.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Sep 2007 20:31:39.0725 (UTC) FILETIME=[16B167D0:01C7F645] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1844 Lines: 42 On Thu 13 Sep 2007 14:28, Josh Boyer pondered: > On 9/12/07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Since AMD shunted its flash memory division, the URI in the mtd Kconfig is now > > broken, so the attached patch points people to Wikipedia. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger > > --- > > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig > > index 479d32b..980117a 100644 > > --- a/drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/Kconfig > > @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ config MTD_CFI > > AMD and other flash manufactures that provides a universal method Even on the Intel page, it gives "Intel, AMD, Sharp, and Fujitsu" credit - why limit Sharp, and Fujitsu to "others"? (I would just take out everyone's name). > > for probing the capabilities of flash devices. If you wish to > > support any device that is CFI-compliant, you need to enable this > > - option. Visit > > - for more information on CFI. > > + option. For more information on CFI, visit: > > + > > Erm, I'd rather not point to wikipedia. Can you change it to point to: > > http://www.intel.com/design/flash/swb/cfi.htm Why not from the place that you can get the standard? http://jedec.org/ or http://www.jedec.org/download/search/jesd68-01.pdf There isn't any point to pick one vendor - unless you work there, own stock, or one provides outstanding support (free hardware) for driver development. :) -Robin - 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/