linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 06/14] nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts

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Message-ID: <b46d0db0-bd82-9ea3-281d-cc3ee3e9b002@milecki.pl>
Date:   Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:06:58 +0200
From:   Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
To:     Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 06/14] nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts

On 25.08.2022 23:44, Michael Walle wrote:
> For now, the content can be
> described by a device tree or a board file. But this only works if the
> offsets and lengths are static and don't change.

Not really true (see Broadcom's NVRAM and U-Boot's env data).