linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] nvmem: core: add NVMEM

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Date:   Wed, 24 Apr 2019 10:49:52 +0530
From:   Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@...eaurora.org>
To:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     maxime.ripard@...tlin.com, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nvmem: core: add NVMEM_SYSFS Kconfig

Hi ,

Sorry for spam,

when is the plan to merge this patch.

Regards
Gaurav

On 4/16/2019 4:45 PM, Gaurav Kohli wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I have reviewed and tested for both enabled and disabled and working as 
> expected.
> 
> Please feel free to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@...eaurora.org>
> Tested-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@...eaurora.org>
> 
> Regards
> Gaurav
> On 4/16/2019 4:31 PM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:59:24AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>>> Many nvmem providers are not very keen on having default sysfs
>>> nvmem entry, as most of the usecases for them are inside kernel
>>> itself. And in some cases read/writes to some areas in nvmem are
>>> restricted and trapped at secure monitor level, so accessing them
>>> from userspace would result in board reboots.
>>>
>>> This patch adds new NVMEM_SYSFS Kconfig to make binary sysfs entry
>>> an optional one. This provision will give more flexibility to users.
>>> This patch also moves existing sysfs code to a new file so that its
>>> not compiled in when its not really required.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
>>
> 

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