Dear Grant Likely,

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:22:59PM +0200, manu wrote:

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Dear Grant, Shawn,
I don't this patch is required as m25p** serial flashes are
supported already with generic OF/SPI and OF/MTD schemes.
I have successfully used it myself on an unmodified 2.6.36.3 vanilla
kernel on a xilinx/powerpc platform with a m25p32 part from STM.
You will find attached the corresponding working defconfig + dts
files (appart from partitions which I didn't managed to configure
properly...).
Best Regards,

Manuel

There is a heuristic which allows spi and i2c devices to get bound
without a match table, which is why it works for you, but there is no
guarantee that the heuristic will continue to exist in the long term.
This is still probably the right thing to do.

g.

So is there any particular reason why this wasn't applied?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut