Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753549AbbBYMci (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:32:38 -0500 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:15459 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752809AbbBYMcg (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:32:36 -0500 Message-ID: <54EDC04E.1050107@imgtec.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:30:06 -0300 From: Ezequiel Garcia User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxime Ripard CC: Thierry Reding , Stephen Warren , Arnd Bergmann , Andrew Bresticker , James Hartley , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] New eFuse subsystem References: <1424864719-3390-1-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com> <20150225120234.GB5062@lukather> In-Reply-To: <20150225120234.GB5062@lukather> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.100.200.222] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1577 Lines: 42 On 02/25/2015 09:02 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > Hi Ezequiel, > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 08:45:12AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: >> This patchset introduces a new driver subsystem, meant to support eFuse >> (alias OTP, one-time-programmable) devices. >> >> The motivation behind this work is to have a common place for drivers >> that are currently more or less scattered: the tegra efuses are in >> drivers/soc/ and the sunxi efuses in drivers/misc/eeprom. >> >> For now, there's no proposal for a generic efuse API. Instead, we simply >> group the drivers together. >> >> This patchset is the result of the initial submission for IMG Pistachio >> eFuse support [1]. Our first proposal was to follow the Tegra efuse, and >> put the Pistachio efuse in drivers/soc. After some discussion we finally >> agreed [2] to first create an efuse directoy, and then put all efuse drivers >> in it. >> >> As always, all comments are welcome! >> >> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg59246.html >> [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg389325.html > > Have you looked at the EEPROM framework currently in discussions? The > two seems to be covering pretty much the same use cases. > Nope, I was obviously unaware of that. Guess we'll wait until the discussion is settled and use that framework. Thanks! -- Ezequiel -- 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/