Re: [PATCHv4 0/7] Convert exiting EEPROM drivers to NVMEM

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Feb 17 2016 - 08:39:12 EST


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:17:25AM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thanks for the patches, they look good.
>
> Do we have any reason why we should not move these drivers from
> drivers/misc/eeprom to drivers/nvmem?

We would have to be careful with the kconfig options. We need to keep
backwards compatibility. So the AT24 driver would need to continue
using EEPROM_AT24, etc.

This might be possible. But i would prefer to do it as a separate
patch once these patches are accepted.

Thanks
Andrew