From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:02:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/7] New eFuse subsystem In-Reply-To: <1424864719-3390-1-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com> References: <1424864719-3390-1-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com> Message-ID: <20150225120234.GB5062@lukather> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Ezequiel, On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 08:45:12AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > This patchset introduces a new driver subsystem, meant to support eFuse > (alias OTP, one-time-programmable) devices. > > The motivation behind this work is to have a common place for drivers > that are currently more or less scattered: the tegra efuses are in > drivers/soc/ and the sunxi efuses in drivers/misc/eeprom. > > For now, there's no proposal for a generic efuse API. Instead, we simply > group the drivers together. > > This patchset is the result of the initial submission for IMG Pistachio > eFuse support [1]. Our first proposal was to follow the Tegra efuse, and > put the Pistachio efuse in drivers/soc. After some discussion we finally > agreed [2] to first create an efuse directoy, and then put all efuse drivers > in it. > > As always, all comments are welcome! > > [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg59246.html > [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg389325.html Have you looked at the EEPROM framework currently in discussions? The two seems to be covering pretty much the same use cases. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: