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

[Boris Brezillon]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 09:38:07 +0100
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Around Wed 01 Mar 2017 09:22:24 +0100 or thereabout, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> I got around to make the patch series during the weekend, but I thought it
> would be a good idea sending them to the kernel mailing list as a FYI.

Definitely.

> 
> Also, I was unsure if I should send the driver removals through the
> sub-maintainers trees, or if I can push them through linux-avr32 tree.

I think it should go through the sub-maintainers trees, but I guess you
can remove the arch code without breaking the build, so it shouldn't be
a problem if drivers removal don't go through the avr32 tree.

> 
> I have a patch removing the pata driver for AVR32.
> 

Great! Just send everything to the MLs (and relevant maintainers).

Thanks,

Boris