From: santosh.shilimkar@ti•com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 10/12] mtd: nand: davinci: don't set timings if AEMIF is used
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:55:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5293F19D.70901@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5291CB01.1010506@ti.com>
On Sunday 24 November 2013 04:46 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> On Friday 22 November 2013 11:08 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> On Thursday 21 November 2013 12:07 PM, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
>>> On 11/14/2013 8:06 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
[..]
>>> Yes, that would be the ideal way. But the reality is that there is close
>>> to zero chance of all the DaVinci platforms using AEMIF ever getting
>>> converted to DT. This means that we will never be able to get rid of
>>> this piece of code.
>>>
>> Well that means some of those platforms support will get deprecated
>> soon considering other basic frameworks like irq, timer wheel etc
>> is assuming the DT direction. But its your call because if you
>> want those platforms to live, you need to convert them to DT.
>>
>>> I do agree platform data is not the direction you want to take on ARM
>>> but at the same time its not really a deprecated mechanism as far as the
>>> broader kernel is concerned.
>>>
>>> So, can we consider adding platform data mechanism to the AEMIF driver?
>>>
>> Sorry but answer is "NO". If the above hack is really bothering you,
>> we can actually rip out the above code in question and move it
>> to mach-davinci. Infact thats the best direction to make the
>> mtd nandn driver independent of any platform quirks(dt, pdata etc)
>>
>> Ivan already has a patch to do that and he is going to post
>> that patch. With that patch, we won't need $subject patch.
>>
>
> Okay I will wait for the patch.
>
Ivan has posted a patch already and you are copied on it.
Regards,
Santosh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-26 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1384187188-5776-1-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 16:47 ` [PATCH 00/12] Introduce davinci AEMIF driver Khoronzhuk, Ivan
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-2-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 16:52 ` [PATCH 01/12] mtd: nand: davinci: fix driver registration Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 15:45 ` Santosh Shilimkar
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-3-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 16:53 ` [PATCH 02/12] mtd: nand: davinci: check required ti,davinci-chipselect property Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 15:50 ` [PATCH 02/12] mtd: nand: davinci: check required ti, davinci-chipselect property Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-18 18:25 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-4-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 16:54 ` [PATCH 03/12] mtd: nand: davinci: simplify error handling Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 15:52 ` Santosh Shilimkar
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-5-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 16:55 ` [PATCH 04/12] mtd: nand: davinci: move bindings under mtd Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 15:53 ` Santosh Shilimkar
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-6-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 16:58 ` [PATCH 05/12] mtd: nand: davinci: extend description of bindings Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 15:55 ` Santosh Shilimkar
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-7-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 17:01 ` [PATCH 06/12] mtd: nand: davinci: adjust DT properties to MTD generic Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-26 7:03 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-26 10:30 ` Grygorii Strashko
2013-11-26 10:49 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-8-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 17:06 ` [PATCH 07/12] memory: davinci-aemif: introduce AEMIF driver Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 16:08 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-18 19:15 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-26 7:20 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-26 15:05 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-26 17:21 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-26 18:26 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-26 18:29 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-27 0:37 ` Brian Norris
2013-11-27 10:22 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-26 17:44 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-26 18:30 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-26 18:30 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-27 4:05 ` Sekhar Nori
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-9-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 17:09 ` [PATCH 08/12] memory: davinci-aemif: add bindings for " Khoronzhuk, Ivan
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-10-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 17:09 ` [PATCH 09/12] mtd: nand: davinci: reuse driver for Keystone arch Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 16:09 ` Santosh Shilimkar
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-11-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 17:10 ` [PATCH 10/12] mtd: nand: davinci: don't set timings if AEMIF is used Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 16:13 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-18 11:35 ` Grygorii Strashko
2013-11-18 14:08 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-18 19:32 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-13 5:02 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-13 14:14 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-14 10:53 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-14 14:36 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-18 19:35 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-21 17:07 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-22 17:38 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-11-24 9:46 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-25 20:00 ` [PATCH] ARM: davinci: aemif: get rid of davinci-nand driver dependency on aemif Ivan Khoronzhuk
2013-11-27 8:35 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-27 11:01 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-27 13:07 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-11-27 13:21 ` ivan.khoronzhuk
2013-11-26 0:55 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-12-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 17:12 ` [PATCH 11/12] mtd: nand: davinci: don't request AEMIF address range Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 16:15 ` Santosh Shilimkar
[not found] ` <1384187188-5776-13-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>
2013-11-11 17:13 ` [PATCH 12/12] arm: dts: keystone: add AEMIF/NAND device entry Khoronzhuk, Ivan
2013-11-12 16:19 ` Santosh Shilimkar
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