[U-Boot] [PATCH] mtdparts: Call nand_init() during mtdparts_init().

[Scott Wood]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:39:52 +0200
Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Mike Frysinger,
> 
> > it makes more sense to me to hide this in the header (which Scott has done)>  
> > and let the compiler/code optimize dead crap away.
> 
> Why do we need an explicit call to nand_init() at all?
> 
> Why cannot the NAND routines check internally if they have been
> initialized yet, and run nand_init() if and when needed?

mtdparts doesn't make any calls directly to NAND routines (other than
this new call to nand_init).  It looks for registered MTD devices.

Until nand_init runs, you won't have any NAND mtd devices -- and no
NAND function will be invoked where such initialization could be done.

-Scott