[U-Boot] [RFC][PULL-REQ] MTD update

[Vikram Narayanan]

On 12/28/2012 7:29 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 07:17:42AM -0500, Sergey Lapin wrote:
>
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> As I failed to submit 250KB patch to the list
>> I will send this pull request
>>
>> This patch is not for inclusion yet.
>> This patch is just update of u-boot MTD with
>> Linux kernel's MTD v3.8-rc.
>
> First, while I appreciate the effort, I'd rather us sync with v3.7
> release rather than the in-flux v3.8.  Second, can you please look at
> the archives about how we've done these re-syncs before?  I really don't
> want to take a single giant patch and we're usually able to break this
> up into chunks.  Thanks!

Can someone point to the exact thread where such discussion has happened 
before?

The re-sync has to happen addressing the bisect-ability as well.

Already there was a discussion on syncing the UBI layer. So, if some 
ideas are thrown, it would be beneficial for both MTD and UBI sync.

Thanks,
Vikram