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

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2017 09:40:53 +0000
From:   Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To:     Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        "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 05/01/17 05:34, Vivek Gautam wrote:
> Hi Srinivas,
>
> 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>
>
> Can you please pick this patch as well, adding Stephen's 'Reviewed-by' tag.
>
This is already in my queue for 4.11 release, as this is an enhancement. 
I will send them to Greg once we hit rc4 or rc5.

thanks,
srini

>
> Regards
> Vivek
>