[PATCH 1/2][v7] driver/memory:Move Freescale IFC driver to a common driver

prabhakar at freescale.com prabhakar at freescale.com
Fri Jan 31 14:23:54 EST 2014



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wood Scott-B07421
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 3:01 AM
> To: Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][v7] driver/memory:Move Freescale IFC driver to a common
> driver
> 
> On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 10:59 +0530, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> >  Freescale IFC controller has been used for mpc8xxx. It will be used
> > for ARM-based SoC as well. This patch moves the driver to
> > driver/memory  and fix the header file includes.
> >
> >  Also remove module_platform_driver() and  instead call
> >  platform_driver_register() from subsys_initcall() to make sure this
> > module  has been loaded before MTD partition parsing starts.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar at freescale.com>
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> When did Arnd ack this?  Especially in v7 form... and I don't see him on CC.
> 
> > +config FSL_IFC
> > +	bool "Freescale Integrated Flash Controller"
> > +	depends on FSL_SOC
> > +	help
> > +	  This driver is for the Integrated Flash Controller Controller(IFC)
> 
> Controller Controller?

I will fix it

> 
> > +	  module available in Freescale SoCs. This controller allows to handle
> flash
> > +	  devices such as NOR, NAND, FPGA and ASIC etc
> 
> FPGA and ASIC are not (necessarily) flash devices.
> 

Yes it true. 
I am not sure this folder is only for flash controller.
I can see references of FPGA, SRAM in same Kconfigs. 

Regards,
Prabhakar


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