Re: mtd: spi-nor: Add support for N25Q256A11
Hello Debian Kernel Team,
I just submitted this bug to Debian via reportbug. It looks like the linux-4.9 package doesn't have a maintainer, so I'm forwarding the bug in the hope that someone will see it.
Regards,
Matt
On Sat, 25 May 2019 14:58:33 -0500 Matt Sickler <matt.sickler@daktronics.com> wrote:
> Source: linux-4.9
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> We have a system that uses the n25q256a11 SPI flash device which is not
> marked as supported in the 4.9 kernel series.
> This is the same problem as I had in deb bug #843650. In that bug report I
> stated that the patch wasn't necessary as it was added upstream in 4.7.
> That is incorrect, I'm not sure what I was thinking back then.
> It *was* added upstream for 4.12 as seen in commit 835ed7bf12609c [1].
> Anyway, we're thinking of using the backported linux-4.9 with Jessie for a
> little while, and I'd like to avoid having to keep patching the packages myself.
>
> [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/835ed7bf12609ce23d42956e74206cc539a0ce5f
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.11
> APT prefers oldstable
> APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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