linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add a property in at24.c

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:30:31 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     alanx.chiang@...el.com, linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        andy.yeh@...el.com, Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rajmohan Mani <rajmohan.mani@...el.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add a property in at24.c

2018-06-26 15:23 GMT+02:00 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>:
> On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 14:36 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> 2018-06-26 14:14 GMT+02:00 Andy Shevchenko
>> <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>:
>> > On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 09:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>
>> > > What is your use case exactly? Do you have an EEPROM model that's
>> > > not
>> > > yet supported explicitly in the driver? Why would you need this
>> > > option?
>> >
>> > The current at24 driver has no address width support,
>
>> >  thus, reusing same
>> > (allocated) IDs (non-DT case) is hard.
>
> ^^^^^
>
>> Every supported compatible has the width already specified in its
>> corresponding chip data.
>
>
> Please, read again carefully what I wrote before.
>

Ok makes sense in that case. Could you just point me towards an
example model which has the address width different than the default
for its type?

Bart