linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 09:22:24 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>
Cc:     Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        "open list:MEMORY TECHNOLOGY..." <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@...el.com>,
        Josh Wu <rainyfeeling@...look.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
        linux-arm Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
        Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver

Hi Hans-Christian,

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:04:35 +0100
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no> wrote:

> Around Fri 24 Feb 2017 09:55:09 +0100 or thereabout, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:52:09 +0100
> > Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no> wrote:  
> >> Around Fri 24 Feb 2017 09:27:42 +0100 or thereabout, Boris Brezillon wrote:  
> >> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:14:30 +0100 Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no> wrote:    
> >> >> Around Thu 23 Feb 2017 21:18:13 -0800 or thereabout, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote:    
> >> >> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Alexandre Belloni
> >> >> > <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com> wrote:      
> >> >> >> On 21/02/2017 at 18:43:35 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:      
> >> 
> >> <snipp>
> >>   
> >> >> >> If nobody complains about the 4.10 breakage, You'll have plenty of time
> >> >> >> to remove it for 4.12      
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > I'm fine with that, but I haven't put much effort into keeping it
> >> >> > alive lately. If Hans-Christian agrees, I'm willing to post a patch to
> >> >> > remove it, or ack someone else's patch.      
> >> >> 
> >> >> Then lets plan this for 4.12, either you Håvard whip up a patch or I can
> >> >> eventually do it.
> >> >> 
> >> >> I can push it through the linux-avr32 git tree on kernel.org.
> >> >>     
> >> > 
> >> > Can you do that just after 4.11-rc1 is released and provide a topic
> >> > branch I can pull in my nand/next branch, so that I can rework this
> >> > patch and drop all the pdata-compat code (as suggested by Andy).    
> >> 
> >> OK, I will try to prepare it during the weekend.
> >> 
> >> Any reason to wait for 4.11-rc1? AFAIK Linus prefers the larger changes
> >> before he starts tagging rc's.
> >>   
> > 
> > Oh, so you want to queue it for 4.11, that's even better.  
> 
> Perhaps I misunderstood you, by after 4.11-rc1 you mean queue it for 4.12?
> 
> I will see what I get around to do in the weekend, it should be pretty
> straightforward, just want to make sure we remove all the bits.
> 

Any progress on this? I plan to send a new version of this series soon
and I'd like to know if I should drop pdata/avr32 support or not. Note
that I'm targeting 4.12, so, as long as you drop avr32 support in 4.12
we should be good.

Thanks,

Boris