Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755964Ab3GKJEe (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:04:34 -0400 Received: from mail1.bemta8.messagelabs.com ([216.82.243.208]:60204 "EHLO mail1.bemta8.messagelabs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755838Ab3GKJEd (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:04:33 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 403 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:04:33 EDT X-Env-Sender: Hector.Palacios@digi.com X-Msg-Ref: server-7.tower-45.messagelabs.com!1373533069!32193798!1 X-Originating-IP: [66.77.174.13] X-StarScan-Received: X-StarScan-Version: 6.9.9; banners=-,-,- X-VirusChecked: Checked Message-ID: <51DE734A.80206@digi.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:56:42 +0200 From: Hector Palacios Organization: Digi International User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com" CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "fabio.estevam@freescale.com" , Marek Vasut , "cb@sgoc.de" Subject: Re: MXS persistent bits driver References: <51DE5F1A.8010209@digi.com> <20130711082413.GU11243@lukather> In-Reply-To: <20130711082413.GU11243@lukather> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1311 Lines: 42 Dear Maxime, On 07/11/2013 10:24 AM, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com wrote: > Hi Hector, > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:30:34AM +0200, Hector Palacios wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Linux 2.6.35 had a driver for sysfs access to the MXS persistent >> bits (drivers/misc/mxs-persistent.c). > > Freescale's 2.6.35 I suspect, right? Yes. >> I haven't seen this is supported upstream. Is anybody working on that? >> Where would such a driver fit? > > Christoph Baumann recently started porting the Freescale's driver to > newer release. > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/181569.html > > This needs quite a lot of work, but it's ongoing. > > Also, about where to put such a driver, I started a discussion about > this last week. Mostly, that would be part of MTD, from what is out of > the discussion so far. > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-July/182002.html I was talking about RTC persistent bits, not OTP bits, but I they also fit in your EEPROM like model. I like it! Best regards, -- Hector Palacios -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/