Re: [PATCH v2] eeprom: move nvmem EEPROM drivers to drivers/nvmem/

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 10:49:33 EST


On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 11:24:37AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> For historical reasons EEPROM drivers have lived under
> drivers/misc/eeprom/. Also for historical reasons changes to most of
> them would go through the char-misc tree while some would be queued
> through the I2C tree. Over the years some of them have also been
> converted to using nvmem - the dedicated subsystem for non-volatile
> memory - while get_maintainer.pl does not Cc the maintainer of nvmem on
> patches changing them.
>
> Move the EEPROM drivers using nvmem under drivers/nvmem/ for
> consistency of the review process and path upstream.
>
> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Put the Kconfig entries behind a NVMEM_SYSFS guard
> - Rebase on top of v7.2-rc1
> - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260618-eeprom-move-to-nvmem-v1-1-21771f30efcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>