Cleanups for physmap_of.c (v2)

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Sep 21 11:00:55 EST 2007


On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:11:59PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > 	- (the big one) Despite the name, this driver really has
> > nothing to do with drivers/mtd/physmap.c.  The fact that the flash
> > chips must be physically direct mapped is a constrant, but doesn't
> > really say anything about the actual purpose of this driver, which is
> > to instantiate MTD devices based on information from the device tree.
> > Therefore the physmap name is replaced everywhere within the file with
> > "of_flash".
> 
> Do you think this code will handle NAND flash later, too?  If not,
> maybe "of_norflash" is better?

Uh.. maybe?  I guess we can either extend it or rename it in the
future sometime.

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