linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] drivers: misc: eeprom: at24: support reading mac eeprom from different addresses

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:56:03 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...rochip.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] drivers: misc: eeprom: at24: support reading mac
 eeprom from different addresses

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Claudiu Beznea
<claudiu.beznea@...rochip.com> wrote:
> Add support for reading from different offsets of EEPROM.
> The offset is initialized via device tree. If nothing is
> given as input the old value, 0x90, is used. In this way
> the driver could be used as generic driver for different
> vendor memories by only changing the reading offset via
> device tree.

> +       err = device_property_read_u8(dev, "start-offset", &chip->offset);

This property has to be documented.

Moreover, the name looks too broad (I checked current use of
"*-offset" type of properties and they either vendor specific, or data
type specific.

Taking above into consideration mac-offset sounds better to me.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko