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The diskonchip G4 driver does not fit very well in the raw/parallel NAND framework simply because such chips have an internal controller translating DoC-specific commands into NAND ones. Keeping such a driver in the raw NAND framework is a real burden for NAND maintainers. Not to mention that some parts of this driver are a bit worrisome: - writes are done by subpages, even though we're interfacing with an MLC chip which are known to not support subpage writes very well (it might be that the FTL handles the complexity for us though) - some part of the code are simply ignoring return codes of function that can fail in a few occasions - there's a hack to support OOB writes when no data is provided. This operation is not supported by the chip and should have been rejected, and nandwrite and other userspace tools should have been patched to deal with such devices - the driver is apparently broken when ignore_badblocks module param is not set to 1 and nobody noticed that (don't know since when this is the case, but it's not a recent change) http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2018-July/082472.html Add to that the fact that we already have a docg3 driver in drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c and, looking at the code (and regs), it seems docg3 and docg4 have a lot in common (even the author of this driver seemed to have realized that interfacing with the raw NAND framework might have been a bad idea http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-January/039517.html). For all these reasons, I'm proposing to remove this driver. If anyone ever wants to add support for this chip back, I'd suggest extending the docg3 driver instead of adding a completely new driver. Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> Cc: Mike Dunn <mikedunn@newsguy.com> Cc: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> Cc: Sergey Larin <cerg2010cerg2010@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.