linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: document "mac-offset" binding

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Date:   Sun, 9 Jul 2017 22:46:13 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...rochip.com>
Cc:     mark.rutland@....com, nsekhar@...com, david@...hnology.com,
        wsa@...-dreams.de, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com, ludovic.desroches@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: document "mac-offset"
 binding

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 01:16:57PM +0300, Claudiu Beznea wrote:
> Document "mac-offset" binding that will be used by at24 EEPROM driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...rochip.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt
> index a50dc01..3dd267c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt
> @@ -35,10 +35,13 @@ Optional properties:
>  
>    - read-only: this parameterless property disables writes to the eeprom
>  
> +  - mac-offset: offset in EEPROM where MAC address starts
> +

This doesn't scale if you have multiple things you need the offset to, 
and we already have a binding for this. Use the nvmem binding.

Rob