[U-Boot] [U-Boot-DM] List of offending drivers

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Fri Jul 27 10:42:47 CEST 2012


Dear Wolfgang Denk,

> Dear Marek Vasut,
> 
> In message <201207270118.19524.marex at denx.de> you wrote:
> > Check the following list, it's the list of drivers scattered (misplaced)
> > across the tree. The list is not complete and might be inaccurate. But
> > it should give a good impression of what I'm going to break soon:

[...]

> All these are either
> 
> 1) old versions of flash drivers that predate the cfi flash
>    implementation, so they could be replaced by the CFI driver (if
>    there was someone to test this)

Well, can they not be replaced either way? Someone will eventually complain if 
they care enough.

>    or
> 
> 2) very special versions of flash drivers dealing with board specific
>    details that prevent the use of the CFI flash driver, in which case
>    they should remain in the board directories.

Can these not be unified (read stuffed with #ifdef-#endif blocks for now, later 
replaced with platform data) ?

> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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