[U-Boot] spi: Zapping non-dm drivers, deadline: v2018.09

[Marek Vasut]

On 02/26/2018 06:25 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 08:28:45PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> 
>> Due to adding various new functionalities with SPI and SPI-FLASH
>> subsystems which are rounding in Mailing list for year+ [1] these long
>> term supporting spi driver which never seen any update with
>> driver-model conversion.
>>
>> We support to write another stack code for supporting these legacy
>> stuff, but things become more difficult. So I'm finally giving
>> deadlines for these drivers to respective driver or board developers
>> to convert them as soon as possible.
>>
>> PS: We all agree some special platforms has some difficulties with
>> dm-conversion let's discuss.
>>
>> No dm conversion yet:
>> ----------------------------
>> drivers/spi/cf_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/fsl_espi.c
>> drivers/spi/lpc32xx_ssp.c
>> drivers/spi/mpc8xx_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/mpc8xxx_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/sh_qspi.c
>> drivers/spi/sh_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/soft_spi_legacy.c
>>
>>
>> Partially converted:
>> -------------------------
>> drivers/spi/atcspi200_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/atmel_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/davinci_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/fsl_dspi.c
>> drivers/spi/fsl_qspi.c
>> drivers/spi/kirkwood_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/mxc_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/omap3_spi.c
>> drivers/spi/ti_qspi.cM
>>
>> I would like to see these legacy drivers with full dm-conversion or
>> zapped in v2018.09 version of U-Boot.
>>
>> [1] http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/PATCH-v10-00-27-dm-Generic-MTD-Subsystem-with-SPI-NOR-interface-td315694i20.html
> 
> I've added a bunch of people to the Cc list.  I am in agreement with
> this idea.  I'd also rather not push the deadline here out further.
> Please, speak out if this is a problem, or if you'd like to drop some
> code / platforms.  Thanks all!

My only gripe is that we should've imported the Linux SPI NOR framework
years ago rather than blocking every and all patch for the current SPI
NOR framework and trying to develop one from scratch ... the drivers I
maintain will be converted eventually.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut