[PATCH] powerpc: Create "rom" (MTD) device prpmc2800
    Segher Boessenkool 
    segher at kernel.crashing.org
       
    Mon Jun  4 04:46:57 EST 2007
    
    
  
>>> Nobody's talking about the direct match but making the task of 
>>> selecting a proper driver more complex by specifying the details 
>>> that don't help (if not hinder) the correct selection is certainly 
>>> not a way to go.
>
>> Nonsense.  If the kernel doesn't care about certain details,
>> it can just ignore them.
>
>    That's OK, as long as it has the details it needs. Your suggestions 
> on the "compatible" devoided it of such.
Sigh.
[snip]
>>>    That's the way the cookie crumbles in Linux MTD for now. It's 
>>> *always* detecting this by probing -- you only can say what [not] to 
>>> probe.
>
>> So go fix that :-)
>
>    Wanna pay me for that? ;-)
You're the one complaining, you go pay yourself.
[snip, plunk]
Segher
    
    
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