Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/9] eeprom: at24: at24cs series serial number read

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Bartosz" == Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

 >> As the serial number is available on a separate i2c address, wouldn't
 >> it be simpler to handle these as special (read only) device variants and
 >> instantiate E.G. a 24c64 (for the normal data) and a 24cs64 (for the
 >> serial)?
 >> 

 > Hi Peter,

 > I wanted to respond that this way we would not be protected from
 > concurrent accesses, but then I saw I didn't actually include any
 > locks in the serial read function - my bad. It needs to be fixed as
 > both memory blocks share the same address pointer.

 > I'll resend the series.

But we're protected by the i2c bus lock, right? You do a single
i2c_transfer to read the serial number.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 
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