Hi Boris, On 30 October 2017 at 14:04, Boris Brezillon <boris.brezil...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > Hi PrasannaKumar, > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:13:51 +0530 > PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmku...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Lars-Peter Clausen <l...@metafoo.de> >> >> Avoid sending unnecessary READ commands to the chip. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <l...@metafoo.de> >> Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmku...@gmail.com> >> --- >> This patch is taken from git://projects.qi-hardware.com/qi-kernel.git >> branch jz-3.16. From [1] and [2] it can be seen that the patch author >> thinks this can be sent upstream but it never happened so far. This >> patch is used in OpenWRT as seen from [3]. > > Sounds reasonable, but it's likely to conflict with something I'd like > to queue for 4.16 [1]. I'll rebase this patch on nand/next once the > ->exec_op() series is merged. Don't hesitate to ping me if I forget. > > Regards, > > Boris > > [1]http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-mtd/list/?series=8923
Okay. I will remind you if required. There is another patch used in OpenWRT at [1]. Do you mind to have a look at it and take that if it is useful? I don't see a point in me sending it as a RFC as I am not contributing anything to it other than noticing its existence. 1. https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/xburst/patches-3.18/003-NAND-Add-support-for-subpage-reads-for-NAND_ECC_HW_O.patch;h=974eb7a5db9a09347fa6137461f030575f9a4328;hb=c03d4317a6bc891cb4a5e89cbdd77f37c23aff86 Thanks, PrasannaKumar
