linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.32 -mm merge plans

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Message-Id: <20090915171826.4bd7f1d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:18:26 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Cc:	dedekind1@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, kmpark@...radead.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.32 -mm merge plans

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:03:57 +0900
Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:15:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > mtd-make-onenand-genericc-more-generic.patch
> > mtd-nand-add-page-parameter-to-all-read_page-read_page_raw-apis.patch
> > mtd-nand-add-new-ecc-mode-ecc_hw_oob_first.patch
> > mtd-nand-davinci-add-4-bit-ecc-support-for-large-page-nand-chips.patch
> > mtd-nand-davinci-add-4-bit-ecc-support-for-large-page-nand-chips-update.patch
> > mtd-jffs2-fix-read-buffer-overflow.patch
> > mtd-prevent-a-read-from-eraseregions.patch
> > mtd-prevent-a-read-from-regions.patch
> > mtd-jedec_probe-fix-nec-upd29f064115-detection.patch
> > mtdpart-memory-accessor-interface-for-mtd-layer.patch
> > 
> >   -> dwmw2
> > 
> Regarding mtd-make-onenand-genericc-more-generic.patch, I'm not really
> sure what happened. To recap:
> 
> It was posted to the mtd list here:
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026805.html
> 
> Kyungmin objected to the driver name change here:
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026807.html
> 
> I pointed out that the rough rationale for the name change here:
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026808.html
> 
> and offered to redo the patch keeping the old name if Kyungmin felt the
> rationale wasn't valid, but received no reply. Subsequently, Artem
> mentioned that he had merged it in to his l2-mtd-2.6.git tree here:
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/026866.html
> 
> which subsequently seems to not actually have happened.
> 
> This is a pretty trivial patch, and I don't mind respinning it in
> whatever form folks are content with. I had assumed given the mention
> that it had been merged in to the l2 tree that the rationale was
> sufficient for merging.

I don't think that Artem's tree is in linux-next, so I have no
visibility of what's happening with that patch.

I do think that Artem's tree should be in linux-next.

I guess I'll just hose the patch at dwmw2 and will see what happens.  I
sent it on Aug 6, with no effect.

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