linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver

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Message-ID: <20190906090325.330a5945@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 09:03:25 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>, <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <frieder.schrempf@...tron.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver

On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 15:58:41 +0100
John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com> wrote:

> I don't think that it was appropriate to apply this patch in the end - 
> maybe this could have been communicated better. If you check the 
> subsequent discussion in this thread, it seems that completely new 
> documentation is required:
> 
> "Actually it seems like the whole file is obsolete and needs to be
> removed or replaced by proper documentation of the SPI MEM API."
> 
> But nothing seems to be happening there...

Ah, OK, I lost track of that somewhere along the way.

Unless you object I'll leave it applied, it's not going to do any harm,
methinks.

jon