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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:35:30 -0800
From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] capemgr: Beaglebone DT overlay based cape manager
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* Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com> [130107 12:29]:
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > 
> > Well how about split it to an eeprom driver, and Linux generic
> > device loader parts?
> > 
> 
> All that's left is the eeprom driver (accessor) and calls to the 
> generic DT overlay constructs. 
>
> If you caught on the previous patchset about DT overlays it should be
> clear.
> 
> So it is split along those lines already.

Hmm I was thinking something like this:

drivers/base/device-loader.c
drivers/misc/eeprom/beaglebone-cape.c

Then you may be able to just load the configuration for it
from a .dts file and maybe no hardware specific glue is even
needed.

Regards,

Tony