linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/16] nvmem: remove unused APIs

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Message-ID: <d74205d4-f8c1-1151-413b-e1a80aa6b74c@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:23:34 +0100
From:   Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Alban Bedel <albeu@...e.fr>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/16] nvmem: remove unused APIs



On 10/09/18 13:22, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> While one can argue that nvmem_device_cell_read/write() may be needed
> in some strange corner case now, once we add the cell lookup API, we
> can safely remove it and force users to do the right thing.
I agree!

I don't have very strong reason to stop removing 
nvmem_device_cell_read/write().
Lets see how it turns out!

I would still want nvmem config to have ability to setup static cell list.

--srini