linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: remove CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY

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Message-ID: <1345818230.2848.315.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:23:50 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Huang Shijie <b32955@...escale.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: remove CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE

On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 17:12 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> Just as Artem suggested:
> 
> "Both UBI and JFFS2 are able to read verify what they wrote already.
> There are also MTD tests which do this verification. So I think there
> is no reason to keep this in the NAND layer, let alone wasting RAM in
> the driver to support this feature."
> 
> So kill MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE entirely. Please see the patch:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-August/043189.html
>   
> This patch removes the CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE in the defconfigs.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@...escale.com>

Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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