linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v14 0/8] NVMEM cells in sysfs

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Date:   Fri, 8 Dec 2023 13:05:39 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Robert Marko <robert.marko@...tura.hr>,
        Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@...tlin.com>,
        Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>,
        Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>,
        Marco Felsch <m.felsch@...gutronix.de>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 0/8] NVMEM cells in sysfs

Hi Srinivas,

srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org wrote on Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:47:50 +0000:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:37:29 +0100, 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!

Great! Thanks!

Miquèl