linux-kernel - Re: NVMEM usage question

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Message-ID: <20160317161412.GA24806@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:14:12 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Eddie Huang <eddie.huang@...iatek.com>
Cc:	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, andrew-ct.chen@...iatek.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NVMEM usage question

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Eddie Huang wrote:
> 
> Mediatek PMIC chip have some spare registers used to store information.
> The value of these registers will exist until user unplug battery or
> battery depletion. One of our usage example is store battery utilization

i.e. like battery-backed raid caches.

> in these spare registers. We want to implement NVMEM driver to
> read/write sparse registers, but binding document describe NVMEM is for
> "Non-volatile memory", and for hardware like eeprom, efuse. Since the

Users will expect nvmem to not go away on battery drain, so I don't think it
would be the best fit, semantically speaking.

Unless this is common enough that it would make sense to have a generic
quasi-non-volatile profile for nvmem, and publish that constraint to
userspace in a standard way...

-- 
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  Henrique Holschuh