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

From: Miquel Raynal
Date: Fri Dec 08 2023 - 07:05:55 EST


Hi Srinivas,

srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx 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