linux-kernel - Re: mtd api rework

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Message-Id: <20120131161608.42c145d8f3f89dd3181cdac5@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:16:08 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	dedekind1@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: mtd api rework

Hi Artem,

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:30:29 +0200 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com> wrote:
>
> we are doing MTD API rework and I've just pushed this patch to my l2-mtd
> tree:
> 
> http://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/l2-mtd.git/commit/a088d81808f6803ca6bfb9ea9148beef53fde1d2
> 
> Which renames MTD function pointers to make sure no one uses them
> directly. I've build-tested this for i386 and arm and it compiles.
> 
> However, there may be compile issues in future if one of subsystems not
> aware of the change try to use old names. Please, be aware. The right
> thing to do in this case for the subsystem is to either not use the
> pointer directly and use the corresponding mtd_func() wrapper. Please,
> let me know if there are any issues related to this change.

Thanks for the heads up.  It seems OK so far, but you may want to check
the build results at http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/linux-next as they
become available.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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