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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] new memory_accessor interface and usage
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:10:06 -0700
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On Monday 16 March 2009, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> This series adds an interface by which other kernel code can read/write
> persistent memory such as I2C or SPI EEPROMs, or devices which provide
> NVRAM. ?Use cases include storage of board-specific configuration data
> like Ethernet addresses and sensor calibrations, etc.

Looks OK to me.  Once this goes in (with support for I2C and SPI EEPROMs)
then various RTC's NVRAM support can be updated too ... at a quick count,
that makes nine more drivers that can easily support this.

I kind of like letting Linux have the option of using this kind of
persistent storage, instead of keeping it so that only bootloaders
(and maybe some userspace code) ever touch it.

- Dave


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