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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
To: Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	moritz.fischer.private@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: Adding of_mtd_info_get to get mtd_info from devicetree
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 10:05:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160516100511.360c89c9@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160516095534.727fcac6@bbrezillon>

On Mon, 16 May 2016 09:55:34 +0200
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hi Moritz,
> 
> On Wed, 11 May 2016 10:47:39 -0700
> Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com> wrote:
> 
> > This allows for getting a struct mtd_info from a node pointer,
> > allowing mtd devices to e.g. store serial numbers or MAC addresses.  
> 
> Can you detail a bit what you'll do next. I guess you need to provide
> this information to in-kernel users, and those users will just call
> mtd_read() after retrieving the mtd_info pointer.
> 
> Here are a few questions (I'm assuming the netdev + MAC address case):
> - how would you link the net/PHY device to the MTD partition storing
>   the MAC address

Sorry, I sent it before asking all my questions :).

- it seems quite specific to MTD devices to me. What if the MAC address
  is stored in something that is not exposed as an MTD device. I wonder
  if we shouldn't add an nvmem wrapper around MTD devices.


-- 
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-16  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-11 17:47 [PATCH] mtd: Adding of_mtd_info_get to get mtd_info from devicetree Moritz Fischer
2016-05-16  7:55 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-05-16  8:05   ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
2016-05-16 16:30     ` Moritz Fischer
2016-05-16 17:14       ` Boris Brezillon

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