Re: [PATCH 4/6] mtd: rawnand: gpio: Use device properties

[Miquel Raynal]

Hi Linus,

linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:33:52 +0100:

> The platform data (struct gpio_nand_platdata) isn't really used
> in any boardfile in the kernel: the only probe path is from
> device tree.
> 
> Convert the driver to not use the platform data header at all
> and read out the device tree properties using device
> properties so we don't need to have the driver be exclusively
> device tree either: ACPI or software nodes work fine if
> need be. Drop the ifdeffery around CONFIG_OF as a consequence.
> 
> The code reads "bank-width" to plat->options flags and passes
> it directly to the NAND chip struct, so just assign this
> directly to the chip instead.
> 
> The code reads one property "chip-delay" that it stores
> in pdata->delay and never use, so drop this altogether.
> If timings should be supported this can probably be done in
> a more detailed way using the new elaborate timings structs
> that exist for NAND.
> 
> The platform data contains a callback to augment partitions,
> but since there are no board files using this platform
> data to define a gpio NAND device, this is never used so
> the code handling it can be deleted.

Nice cleanup. I'm a bit more reluctant on the bindings side, I'll come
back to it later, but the driver side looks neat.

Thanks,
Miquèl