linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] mtd: fixup CFI on ixp4xx

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Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:21:07 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Linus Walleij <linusw@...nel.org>,
        Imre Kaloz <kaloz@...nwrt.org>,
        Krzysztof Halasa <khalasa@...p.pl>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] mtd: fixup CFI on ixp4xx

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:28 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 4:10 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:

> > Any other ideas for how to address it?
>
> We will "soon" have IXP4xx transitioned to device tree and then
> physmap-ixp4xx.c is used instead, and this entire driver can be
> deleted. I will get there, we just need to remember to mop of cruft
> like this at the end of it.

Ah, perfect. In that case I'm not worried about my patch doing anything
wrong at all, and we can just backport that to stable kernels after it's
merged, while future kernels will won't even need it.

      Arnd