linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH 00/14] eeprom: at24: driver rework and at24cs/at24mac support

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Date:	Sun, 17 Jul 2016 20:02:31 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Cc:	linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	GregKH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 00/14] eeprom: at24: driver rework and
 at24cs/at24mac support

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 10:48:42AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> Chips from the at24cs EEPROM series have an additional read-only
> memory area containing a factory pre-programmed serial number. In
> order to access it, a dummy write must be executed before reading
> the serial number bytes.
> 
> Chips from the at24mac familiy, apart from the serial number, have
> a second special memory area containing a factory programmed
> EUI-48/EUI64 mac address.
> 
> The read-only serial/mac memory area is accessible on a different i2c
> slave address (addr + 0x08). This patchset makes it possible to
> instantiate a separate at24 device on this second address and access
> the read-only area through the regular eeprom sysfs attribute or the
> new nvmem subsystem.
> 
> This series also contains several patches refactoring the driver code.
> Most notably: the low-level read/write routines are split into more
> specialized, smaller functions that no longer perform functionality
> checks at runtime.
> 
> Minor readability tweaks are also included.
> 
> Tested with at24cs32 and at24cs02 chips (for both 16 and 8 bit address
> pointers). I have no means of testing the support for at24mac chips, I
> relied solely on the datasheet.
> 
> Bartosz Golaszewski (14):
>   eeprom: at24: improve the device_id table readability
>   eeprom: at24: move at24_read() below at24_eeprom_write()
>   eeprom: at24: coding style fixes
>   eeprom: at24: call read/write functions via function pointers
>   eeprom: at24: hide the read/write loop behind a macro
>   eeprom: at24: split at24_eeprom_read() into specialized functions
>   eeprom: at24: split at24_eeprom_write() into specialized functions
>   eeprom: at24: platform_data: use BIT() macro
>   eeprom: at24: platform_data: add serial number flag
>   eeprom: at24: support reading the serial number
>   eeprom: at24: add the at24cs series to the list of supported devices

I changed the 128 / 8 to 16 as discussed and squashed the last 3 patches
into 1 here...

>   eeprom: at24: platform_data: add at24mac series flag
>   eeprom: at24: add support for at24mac series
>   eeprom: at24: add at24mac chips to the list of supported devices

... and here.

After that, applied to for-next , thanks!


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