[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 16/21] spi: Remove dual flash options/flags

[Jagan Teki]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Siva Durga Prasad Paladugu
<siva.durga.paladugu at xilinx.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jagan Teki [mailto:jagan at openedev.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:33 AM
>> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
>> Cc: Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com>; Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>;
>> York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com>; Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>; Mugunthan V
>> N <mugunthanvnm at ti.com>; Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>; Siva
>> Durga Prasad Paladugu <sivadur at xilinx.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH v6 16/21] spi: Remove dual flash options/flags
>>
>> Dual flash code in spi are usually take the spi controller to work with dual
>> connected flash devices. Usually these dual connection operation's are
>> referred to flash controller protocol rather with spi controller protocol, these
>> are still present in flash side for the usage of spi-nor controllers.
>>
>> So, this patch remove the dual_flash options or flags in sf which are
>> triggered from spi controller side.
>
> How are you going to handle this? any followup patches on this?
> This will break for some who are using dual flash till now. Isnt it?

Yes, but I've been mentioned many times about this as we need to
re-write the driver on mtd side since many flash futures are dealt
with spi area, which is bad and inconvenient to add new futures. and
also there is no driver using this dual flash so far, SoI am going
with this patch either way.

thanks!
-- 
Jagan Teki
Free Software Engineer | www.openedev.com
U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
Hyderabad, India.