From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>,
<maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>, <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
<broonie@kernel.org>, <vz@mleia.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>,
<bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 0/7] Convert exiting EEPROM drivers to NVMEM
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:56:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160302005640.GA32114@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456516764-1456-1-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch>
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> This patch set converts the old EEPROM drivers in driver/misc/eeprom to
> use the NVMEM framework. These drivers export there content in /sys as
> read only to root, since the EEPROM may contain sensitive information.
> So the first patch adds a flag so the NVMEM framework will create its
> file in /sys as root read only.
>
> To keep backwards compatibility with these older drivers, the contents
> of the EEPROM must be exports in sysfs in a file called eeprom in the
> devices node in sys, where as the NVMEM places them under class/nvmem.
> So add this optional backwards compatible to the framework, again
> using a flag.
>
> Then convert the at24, at25 and 93xx46 by adding regmap support,
> removing each drivers own /sys code and registering with the NVMEM
> framework.
>
> Lastly, the old memory accessor mechanism has been replaced with the
> nvmem equivalent.
Nice job, all now queue up.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-26 19:59 [PATCHv7 0/7] Convert exiting EEPROM drivers to NVMEM Andrew Lunn
2016-02-26 19:59 ` [PATCHv7 1/7] nvmem: Add flag to export NVMEM to root only Andrew Lunn
2016-02-26 19:59 ` [PATCHv7 2/7] nvmem: Add backwards compatibility support for older EEPROM drivers Andrew Lunn
2016-02-26 19:59 ` [PATCHv7 3/7] eeprom: at24: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM framework Andrew Lunn
2016-03-02 21:46 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2016-03-02 21:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-02 23:03 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2016-02-26 19:59 ` [PATCHv7 4/7] eeprom: at25: Remove in kernel API for accessing the EEPROM Andrew Lunn
2016-02-28 21:02 ` Wolfram Sang
2016-02-26 19:59 ` [PATCHv7 5/7] eeprom: at25: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM framework Andrew Lunn
2016-03-02 21:56 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2016-02-26 19:59 ` [PATCHv7 6/7] eeprom: 93xx46: " Andrew Lunn
2016-03-02 22:08 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2016-03-02 22:26 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-02 23:18 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2016-02-26 19:59 ` [PATCHv7 7/7] misc: at24: replace memory_accessor with nvmem_device_read Andrew Lunn
2016-02-28 21:01 ` Wolfram Sang
2016-03-02 0:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-03-06 12:06 ` [PATCHv7 0/7] Convert exiting EEPROM drivers to NVMEM Wolfram Sang
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