From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751232AbaJPGh7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:37:59 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:51319 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbaJPGh5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2014 02:37:57 -0400 Message-ID: <543F678E.1030401@ahsoftware.de> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:37:02 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, David Woodhouse , Brian Norris Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/27] Fix common bug in most nand drivers not showing a device in sysfs References: <1401142372-14148-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: <1401142372-14148-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I wonder if anyone else will fix this in a maintainer-approved style which doesn't use these evil leftovers from C666 called functions. Or will the sysfs for most NAND drivers be knowingly broken forever? Regards, Alexander Holler Am 27.05.2014 00:12, schrieb Alexander Holler: > A comment in mtdcore.c function add_mtd_device() which is called by > mtd_device_parse_register() made me wonder: > > "Caller should have set dev.parent to match the physical device." > > In fact this is not done by most nand drivers. > > What follows is a series which fixes this. > > Tested: orion and omap2 > Compile-Tested: atmel, gpio, fsmc, gpmi, plat, pxa3xx, s3c2410, sh_flctl, > sharpsl, tmio, docg4, davinci, lpc32xx_mlc, lpc32xx_slc, mxc > Not tested at all (only be view, patches 19-27): bcm47, fsl_elbc, fsl_upm, > fsl_ifc, jz4740, mpc5121m, ndfc, txx9ndfmx, socrates > > The overall stat is > > 27 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) > > and it fixes 21 of these bugs. > > Regards, > > Alexander Holler > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >