Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 1/9] nvmem: Add a simple NVMEM framework for nvmem providers | From | Stefan Wahren <> | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:26:40 +0200 |
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Hi Srinivas,
Am 20.07.2015 um 16:43 schrieb Srinivas Kandagatla: > This patch adds just providers part of the framework just to enable easy > review. > > Up until now, NVMEM drivers like eeprom were stored in drivers/misc, > where they all had to duplicate pretty much the same code to register > a sysfs file, allow in-kernel users to access the content of the devices > they were driving, etc. > > This was also a problem as far as other in-kernel users were involved, > since the solutions used were pretty much different from on driver to > another, there was a rather big abstraction leak. > > This introduction of this framework aims at solving this. It also > introduces DT representation for consumer devices to go get the data > they require (MAC Addresses, SoC/Revision ID, part numbers, and so on) > from the nvmems. > > Having regmap interface to this framework would give much better > abstraction for nvmems on different buses. > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> > [Maxime Ripard: intial version of eeprom framework] > Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> > --- > drivers/Kconfig | 2 + > drivers/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/nvmem/Kconfig | 13 ++ > drivers/nvmem/Makefile | 6 + > drivers/nvmem/core.c | 384 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h | 23 +++ > include/linux/nvmem-provider.h | 47 +++++ > 7 files changed, 476 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 drivers/nvmem/Kconfig > create mode 100644 drivers/nvmem/Makefile > create mode 100644 drivers/nvmem/core.c > create mode 100644 include/linux/nvmem-consumer.h > create mode 100644 include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
i've tested this patch with my mxs-ocotp driver [1].
So you can add
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Regards Stefan
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