Re: [PATCH 4/6] Revert "nvmem: add new config option"

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Oct 21 2023 - 13:23:34 EST


On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 11:55:43AM +0100, srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This reverts commit 517f14d9cf3533d5ab4fded195ab6f80a92e378f.
>
> It seems that "no_of_node" config option was added to help mtd's case.
>
> DT nodes of MTD partitions (that are also NVMEM devices) may contain
> subnodes that SHOULD NOT be treated as NVMEM fixed cells. To prevent
> NVMEM core code from parsing them "no_of_node" was set to true and that
> made for_each_child_of_node() in NVMEM a no-op.
>
> With the introduction of "add_legacy_fixed_of_cells" config option
> things got more explicit. MTD subsystem simply tells NVMEM when to look
> for fixed cells and there is no need to hack "of_node" pointer anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>

Why isn't this also marked for stable trees?

thanks,

greg k-h