From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] mtd: devices: add AT24 eeprom support
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:19:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240717101948.2e99f472@xps-13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240709103841.7x7n4hdtqrunyoc3@pengutronix.de>
Hi Marco,
> > > > Overall I think the idea of getting rid of these misc/ drivers is goes
> > > > into the right direction, but registering directly into NVMEM makes
> > > > more sense IMO.
> > >
> > > So you propose to have two places for the partition handling (one for
> > > MTD and one for NVMEM) instead of one and moving the code into NVMEM
> > > directly?
> >
> > Why two places for the partitions handling? Just one, in NVMEM. Also
>
> Without checking the details I think that converting the MTD
> partitioning code into NVMEM partitioning code is a bigger task. As you
> said below there are many legacy code paths you need to consider so they
> still work afterwards as well.
>
> > usually EEPROMs don't require very advanced partitioning schemes,
> > unlike flashes (which are the most common MTD devices today).
>
> As said in my cover letter EEPROMs can become quite large and MTD
> supports partitioning storage devices which is very handy for large
> EEPROMs as well.
Did you had a look at nvmem-layouts ? In particular the fixed-layout.
Is there anything you would like to achieve already that is not
possible with nvmem but is with mtd?
Thanks,
Miquèl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-17 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-01 13:53 [PATCH 0/9] AT24 EEPROM MTD Support Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 1/9] mtd: core: add nvmem_write support Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 2/9] mtd: add mtd_is_master helper Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 16:14 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2024-07-02 8:22 ` Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 3/9] mtd: add support to handle EEPROM devices Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 4/9] mtd: devices: add AT24 eeprom support Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 16:14 ` Tudor Ambarus
2024-07-02 13:41 ` Pratyush Yadav
2024-07-02 13:56 ` Maxime Ripard
2024-07-02 14:15 ` Pratyush Yadav
2024-07-02 14:34 ` Maxime Ripard
2024-07-08 6:44 ` Miquel Raynal
2024-07-09 9:22 ` Marco Felsch
2024-07-09 9:43 ` Miquel Raynal
2024-07-09 10:38 ` Marco Felsch
2024-07-17 8:19 ` Miquel Raynal [this message]
2024-07-18 9:17 ` Marco Felsch
2024-08-23 15:37 ` Miquel Raynal
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 5/9] ARM: defconfig: convert to MTD_EEPROM_AT24 Marco Felsch
2024-07-10 12:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-07-10 12:59 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-07-10 14:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 6/9] powerpc: " Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 7/9] MIPS: configs: " Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 8/9] LoongArch: " Marco Felsch
2024-07-01 13:53 ` [PATCH 9/9] eeprom: at24: remove deprecated Kconfig symbol Marco Felsch
2024-07-02 8:57 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-07-02 9:15 ` Marco Felsch
2024-08-23 16:24 ` [PATCH 0/9] AT24 EEPROM MTD Support Andy Shevchenko
2024-08-26 7:51 ` Marco Felsch
2024-08-26 10:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
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