linux-kernel - [RFC] Creating an eeprom class

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:08:28 +0100
From:	Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
	Anatolij Gustschin <agust@...x.de>,
	Frodo Looijaard <frodol@....nl>,
	Philip Edelbrock <phil@...roedge.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Ben Gardner <bgardner@...tec.com>
Cc:	Ronny Meeus <Ronny.Meeus@...il.com>,
	Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC] Creating an eeprom class

[plaintext and fixed address of David Brownell]

Hi,

Several of the eeprom drivers that live in drivers/misc/eeprom export
a binary sysfs file 'eeprom'. If a userspace program or script wants
to access this file, it needs to know the full path, for example:

/sys/bus/spi/devices/spi32766.0/eeprom

The problem with this approach is that it requires knowledge about the
hardware configuration: is the eeprom on the SPI bus, the I2C bus, or
maybe memory mapped?

It would therefore be more interesting to have a bus-agnostic way to
access this eeprom file, for example:
/sys/class/eeprom/eeprom0/eeprom

Maybe it'd be even better to use a more generic class name than
'eeprom', since there are several types of eeprom-like devices that
you could export this way.

Or should we rather hook the eeprom code into the mtd subsystem?

What is your opinion?

Thanks,
Thomas
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