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Message-ID: <2023053113-caddy-affected-e1fa@gregkh>
Date:   Wed, 31 May 2023 20:11:22 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Luka Perkov <luka.perkov@...tura.hr>,
        Robert Marko <robert.marko@...tura.hr>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ABI: sysfs-nvmem-cells: Expose cells through sysfs

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:09:28PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> The binary content of nvmem devices is available to the user so in the
> easiest cases, finding the content of a cell is rather easy as it is
> just a matter of looking at a known and fixed offset. However, nvmem
> layouts have been recently introduced to cope with more advanced
> situations, where the offset and size of the cells is not known in
> advance or is dynamic. When using layouts, more advanced parsers are
> used by the kernel in order to give direct access to the content of each
> cell regardless of their position/size in the underlying device, but
> these information were not accessible to the user.
> 
> By exposing the nvmem cells to the user through a dedicated cell/ folder
> containing one file per cell, we provide a straightforward access to
> useful user information without the need for re-writing a userland
> parser. Content of nvmem cells is usually: product names, manufacturing
> date, MAC addresses, etc,
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-nvmem-cells | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-nvmem-cells
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-nvmem-cells b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-nvmem-cells
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..bee4acc5bfcb
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-nvmem-cells
> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> +What:		/sys/bus/nvmem/devices/.../cells/<cell-name>
> +Date:		May 2023
> +KernelVersion:  6.5

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