Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add local bus device nodes to MPC837xMDS device trees.
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From: David Gibson <hidden>
Date: 2008-03-11 01:32:04
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:43:49AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, David Gibson wrote:quoted
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 04:39:30AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:quoted
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This isn't a problem with this device tree, but it's probably time we started establishing some conventional generic names for nand flash and board-control devices. So, to start the ball rolling, I've seen several names for nand flash nodes, I'd suggest we standardise on "nand-flash".What's wrong with the already well-established generic name "flash"?I was concerned that using "flash" for both NOR flash (which it already is) and NAND flash might be unwise. I am quite open to being convinced otherwise, though.One argument for just using "flash" is that there are much finer differences than just "NAND" and "NOR", with at least "dataflash", "OneNAND", "SD/MMC" being further types of flash that don't fit the categories exactly, though each one for different reasons. For SD/MMC, there are good reasons to use something completely different, for the others, calling them all "flash" sounds better than fitting them into "nand" and "nor".
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