Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:17:15 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Cc: GregKH <greg@kroah.com>, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com,
        wsa@the-dreams.de, broonie@kernel.org, vz@mleia.com, afd@ti.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM
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> Is there a reason for this driver to be using the old style?
> I can understand the issues with at24/at25 but does this driver also
> suffer from such issues?

In order to keep backwards compatibility, we need the older file in
/sys. The only other option is to remove it and see if anybody
complains about us breaking the ABI.

	  Andrew
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