Re: [PATCH] [RFC] mtd: fixup CFI on ixp4xx

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Sep 28 2021 - 03:21:39 EST


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