linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] eeprom: Add a simple EEPROM framework

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Message-ID: <20150222143405.GY25269@lukather>
Date:	Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:34:05 +0100
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	"linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] eeprom: Add a simple EEPROM framework

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:31:49AM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> >I would do something more simple that is just a list of keys and their
> >location like this:
> >
> >device-serial-number = <start size>;
> >key1 = <start size>;
> >key2 = <start size>;
> >
> There are pros and cons doing it as list of keys.
> 
> One reason for doing it as fixed properties("eeproms", "eemprom-names") is
> "consistency and familiarity" like interrupts, regs, dmas, clocks, pinctrl,
> reset, pwm have fixed property names, trying to get most subsystems to do it
> the same way makes it easier for people to write dts files.

And eeprom-names was something that was asked for last time we
discussed it (I don't really remember who though, maybe Arnd?)

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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