netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/14] ARM: davinci: step towards removing at24_platform

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:38:14 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] ARM: davinci: step towards removing at24_platform_data

2018-06-26 15:21 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>:
>> I see. I see it this way: the setup callback comes from the time when
>> we didn't have nvmem and should go away. I will protest loud whenever
>> someone will try to use it again and will work towards removing it as
>> soon as possible.
>
> The setup() callback could be moved into the nvmem framework, rather
> than in the at24 driver. Make the call when the cells have been
> connected to the backing store.
>

This would at least make it more generic. And maybe I could also get
rid of the setup callback from the mityomapl138 board file.

Bart

>> I will give your problem a thought and will try to get back with some
>> proposals - maybe we should, as you suggested, extend nvmem even
>> further to allow to remove nvmem info entries etc.
>
> That does not help me too much. I have the same problem with i2c and
> MDIO. So i actually prefer to keep this the same as all others.
>
>         Andrew