Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver

From	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver
Date	2017-02-21 17:30 +0100
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On 21/02/2017 at 18:09:09 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > (adding Hans-Christian)
> >
> > On 21/02/2017 at 13:02:21 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> Abusing platform data with pointers is also not welcome.
> >>
> >> > (in this case, avr32).
> >>
> >> It's dead de facto.
> >>
> >> When last time did you compile kernel for it? What was the version of kernel?
> >> Did it get successfully?
> >>
> >
> > v4.10-rc3 was building successfully but had some issues in the network
> > code.
> 
> Newer kernel doesn't link...
> 
> >> When are we going to remove avr32 support from kernel completely?
> 
> > Ask that to the avr32 maintainers. It still builds and is still booted
> > by some people. And that actually seems to be you as you reported a bug
> > we introduced in 4.3. I don't think we had any other report after that.
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9505727/
> 
> After that I gave up on it. Next time I will escalate directly to
> Linus. It's a complete necrophilia. I spent already enough time to
> look at that code. It brings now more burden than supports someone
> somewhere.
> 

As said, it builds fine without networking. Maybe the first step is to
ask the avr32 maintainers. If you already did so, please feel free to
send a patch to remove the whole architecture.
The benefits for atmel will be: proper big endian support, removal of
platform data from all the drivers, better clocksource handling.

> > It can be frustrating at times to handle that platform but if it is
> > working for someone, I don't see why we would remove it.
> 
> How it's working if it's not linked?
> 

Come on, v4.10 has just been release and v4.9 was building just fine. Do
you really expect everybody to closely follow linux-next or update
overnight?

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[PATCH v2 0/3] mtd: nand: Rework/cleanup the Atmel NAND driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-20 13:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 3/3] mtd: nand: Remove unused chip->write_page() hook Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-20 13:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-20 21:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-20 21:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-20 22:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 00:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 01:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-21 09:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 11:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-21 11:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> - 2017-02-21 11:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 12:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-21 12:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 17:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-21 17:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 17:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 17:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-21 18:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> - 2017-02-24 06:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-24 09:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-24 10:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-24 10:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-24 11:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-24 12:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> - 2017-02-24 11:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> - 2017-02-24 10:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-24 10:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> - 2017-02-24 10:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-21 18:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-21 12:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> - 2017-02-21 14:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 17:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> - 2017-02-21 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-02-21 15:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: nand: Cleanup/rework the atmel_nand driver Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> - 2017-02-21 14:10 +0100

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