linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvmem: core: Allow ignoring length when reading a cell

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Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:33:50 +0530
From:   Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvmem: core: Allow ignoring length when reading a cell

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> On 12/19, Vivek Gautam wrote:
>> nvmem_cell_read() API fills in the argument 'len' with
>> the number of bytes read from the cell. Many users don't
>> care about this length value. So allow users to pass a
>> NULL pointer to this len field.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
>> ---
>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>

Thanks Stephen.


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