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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] nvmem: Update the OF binding to use a subnode for
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To:     Alban <albeu@free.fr>
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From:   Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
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Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:44:01 +0100
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Thanks for explaining,

On 17/04/18 15:54, Alban wrote:
> This will not only allow reading the calibration data from nvmem, but
> will also create a partition on the MTD device, which is not acceptable.
> With my proposed binding this would become:
> 
> flash@0 {
> 	#address-cells = <1>;
> 	#size-cells = <1>;
> 	compatible = "s25sl064a";
> 	reg = <0>;
> 
> 	nvmem-cells {
> 		compatible = "nvmem-cells";
> 		#address-cells = <1>;
> 		#address-cells = <1>;
> 
> 		calibration: calib@404 {
> 			reg = <0x404 0x10>;
> 		};
> 	};

Why can't we make nvmem-cells node a nvmem provider in this case?
Which should work!

--srini


> };
> 
> Which would work fine as the MTD code will ignore the nvmem-cells
> subnode thanks to its compatible string.