RE: [RESEND PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: at24: Add address-width property

Chiang, AlanX
2018-07-09T03:12:18Z

Hi Robert,

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> To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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> Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: at24: Add address-width
> property
>
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Rob Herring wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 05:12:19PM +0800, alanx.chiang@intel.com wrote:
> > > From: Alan Chiang <alanx.chiang@intel.com>
> > >
> > > The AT24 series chips use 8-bit address by default. If some chips
> > > would like to support more than 8 bits, the at24 driver should be
> > > added the compatible field for specfic chips.
> > >
> > > Provide a flexible way to determine the addressing bits through
> > > address-width in this patch.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alan Chiang <alanx.chiang@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Andy Yeh <andy.yeh@intel.com>
> > > Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> > >
> > > ---
> > > since v1:
> > > -- Remove the address-width field in the example.
> > > since v2:
> > > -- Remove redundant space.
> > > since v3:
> > > -- Add Acked-by.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt | 2 ++
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>
> "... should be added the compatible field ..."??
>
> rday

Maybe I should modify the sentence as below that makes it clear.
"The compatible field should be added in the at24.c for specific chips.".

I quote Andy's words in patch v2:
"The current at24 driver has no address width support, thus, reusing same
(allocated) IDs (non-DT case) is hard."

This is the reason that I submitted the patch.

Thanks

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