From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753994AbbHDHV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 03:21:29 -0400 Received: from lists.s-osg.org ([54.187.51.154]:55871 "EHLO lists.s-osg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751383AbbHDHV2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 03:21:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/27] misc: eeprom: Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers To: Jean Delvare References: <1438273132-20926-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <1438273132-20926-7-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <20150803130550.12487244@endymion.delvare> <55BF75A2.90200@osg.samsung.com> <1438620615.10722.10.camel@chaos.site> <55BFBD27.3050309@osg.samsung.com> <20150804091928.1a149450@endymion.delvare> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Javier Martinez Canillas Message-ID: <55C067F1.2030606@osg.samsung.com> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:21:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150804091928.1a149450@endymion.delvare> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Jean, On 08/04/2015 09:19 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 21:12:39 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> On 08/03/2015 06:50 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: >>> Yes, the long-term plan is to get rid of the legacy eeprom driver. But >>> we need a transition path for users. Either the at24 driver should be >>> able to instantiate SPD and EDID devices as the eeprom driver does, or >>> we need a user-space helper to do that kind of detection, so that >>> consumer scripts such as decode-dimms keep working. The former is a >>> smaller change, I just hope it won't have any drawback. >> >> I'm in fact not familiar with any Atmel SoC. > > Again, AT24* are EEPROMs, not SoCs. > Oh, sorry I misunderstood. Thanks a lot for the clarification. Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Open Source Group Samsung Research America