Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver

From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Wed Mar 01 2017 - 03:46:12 EST


Hi Hans-Christian,

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:04:35 +0100
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> Around Thu 23 Feb 2017 21:18:13 -0800 or thereabout, HÃvard Skinnemoen wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Alexandre Belloni
> >> >> > <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 HÃvard 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