Re: [for-4.4] mtd: nand: assign reasonable default name for NAND drivers

From: SÃrensen, Stefan
Date: Tue Jan 05 2016 - 10:28:24 EST


Hi Brian,

On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 11:11 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> This patch is needed in additon to commit 472b444eef93 ("mtd: fix
> cmdlinepart parser, early naming for auto-filled MTD") to fix Heiko's
> reported problem. At this point, I'm not sure if this should be
> targeted toward late 4.4 or for 4.5. It's a 4.4 regresssion, but a
> very small one. And I'm not sure if this will have wide enough
> impactÂthat it should be given a longer time to be reviewed and
> tested. We can always send it to -stable later, if it's really
> needed.

I have boards that will not boot 4.4 without these two patches, so I
hope to see it go in to 4.4.1 (I guess it is too late for 4.4).

Regards,Â
ÂStefan