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From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Saul St. John" <saul.stjohn@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] bcma: expose cc sprom to sysfs
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:47:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502E4B70.5090900@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120816190616.GE6726@eris.garyseven.net>

On 08/16/2012 09:06 PM, Saul St. John wrote:
> On BCMA devices with a ChipCommon core of revision 31 or higher, the device
> SPROM can be accessed through CC core registers. This patch exposes the
> SPROM on such devices for read/write access as a sysfs attribute.
>
> Tested on a MacBookPro8,2 with BCM4331.
>
> Cc: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saul St. John <saul.stjohn@gmail.com>

Hi Saul,

I was still planning to come back to your reply on August 14. Just 
wanted to reply to this patch as I still feel it is a bad thing to open 
up the sprom as a whole. I can see the use-cases you mentioned as 
useful, but maybe we can get a specific solution for that.

Gr. AvS


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-16 18:59 [PATCH 0/2] bcma: expose cc sprom for read/write in sysfs Saul St. John
2012-08-16 19:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] bcma: register cc core driver, device Saul St. John
2012-08-16 19:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] bcma: expose cc sprom to sysfs Saul St. John
2012-08-17 13:47   ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-08-17 22:54     ` Saul St. John
2012-08-17 23:05       ` Saul St. John
2012-08-23 19:44     ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-08-23 20:53       ` Larry Finger
2012-08-24  8:37         ` Arend van Spriel

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