linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/27] misc: eeprom: Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers

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Message-ID: <55C067F1.2030606@osg.samsung.com>
Date:	Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:21:21 +0200
From:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
To:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/27] misc: eeprom: Export I2C module alias information
 in missing drivers

Hello Jean,

On 08/04/2015 09:19 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 21:12:39 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On 08/03/2015 06:50 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
>>> Yes, the long-term plan is to get rid of the legacy eeprom driver. But
>>> we need a transition path for users. Either the at24 driver should be
>>> able to instantiate SPD and EDID devices as the eeprom driver does, or
>>> we need a user-space helper to do that kind of detection, so that
>>> consumer scripts such as decode-dimms keep working. The former is a
>>> smaller change, I just hope it won't have any drawback.
>>
>> I'm in fact not familiar with any Atmel SoC.
> 
> Again, AT24* are EEPROMs, not SoCs.
>

Oh, sorry I misunderstood. Thanks a lot for the clarification.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America
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