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Message-Id: <169200728874.82396.6212330367970101447.b4-ty@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:01:28 +0100
From:   Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Robert Marko <robert.marko@...tura.hr>,
        Luka Perkov <luka.perkov@...tura.hr>,
        Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>,
        Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH v9 0/7] NVMEM cells in sysfs


On Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:29:25 +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> As part of a previous effort, support for dynamic NVMEM layouts was
> brought into mainline, helping a lot in getting information from NVMEM
> devices at non-static locations. One common example of NVMEM cell is the
> MAC address that must be used. Sometimes the cell content is mainly (or
> only) useful to the kernel, and sometimes it is not. Users might also
> want to know the content of cells such as: the manufacturing place and
> date, the hardware version, the unique ID, etc. Two possibilities in
> this case: either the users re-implement their own parser to go through
> the whole device and search for the information they want, or the kernel
> can expose the content of the cells if deemed relevant. This second
> approach sounds way more relevant than the first one to avoid useless
> code duplication, so here is a series bringing NVMEM cells content to
> the user through sysfs.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/7] nvmem: core: Create all cells before adding the nvmem device
      commit: ad004687dafea0921c2551c7d3e7ad56837984fc
[2/7] nvmem: core: Return NULL when no nvmem layout is found
      commit: a29eacf7e6376a44f37cc80950c92a59ca285992
[3/7] nvmem: core: Do not open-code existing functions
      commit: 95735bc038a828d649fe7f66f9bb67099c18a47a
[4/7] nvmem: core: Notify when a new layout is registered
      commit: 0e4a8e9e49ea29af87f9f308dc3e01fab969102f

Best regards,
-- 
Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>

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