From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rewrite mtk-quadspi spi-nor driver with spi-mem
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:55:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200218125557.GD4232@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200215065826.739102-1-gch981213@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 02:58:24PM +0800, Chuanhong Guo wrote:
> To keep patchset small for easier reviewing, there will be 3 patchsets
> including this one.
> 1. add the new driver, which is this patchset.
> 2. update existing dts for the new driver:
> spi-max-frequency is missing in current mtk-quadspi binding. Old
> driver parses child node manually so it doesn't need this, but
> new spi-mem driver is probed via spi subsystem which requires the
> presence of spi-max-frequency. Since this doesn't break old driver
> support, I'll send this separately as a standalone patch.
This is an ABI break so you shouldn't be doing this, if the existing
binding works it should continue to work.
> 3. removing the old driver. I'll create this commit after 1 and 2 are
> applied to avoid possible rebasing due to any changes in the old
> driver.
This isn't great as it means we have a period with two drivers for the
same thing in tree which is at best going to be confusing. There's no
advantage to splitting this out.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-18 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-15 6:58 [PATCH 0/2] rewrite mtk-quadspi spi-nor driver with spi-mem Chuanhong Guo
2020-02-15 6:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] spi: add support for mediatek spi-nor controller Chuanhong Guo
2020-02-15 6:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: convert mtk-quadspi binding doc for spi-mtk-nor Chuanhong Guo
2020-02-18 12:55 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2020-02-19 23:58 ` [PATCH 0/2] rewrite mtk-quadspi spi-nor driver with spi-mem Chuanhong Guo
2020-02-20 19:51 ` Mark Brown
2020-02-25 17:31 ` Rob Herring
2020-02-26 1:31 ` Chuanhong Guo
2020-02-26 11:36 ` Mark Brown
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