Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] drivers: misc: eeprom: at24: support reading mac eeprom from different addresses

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 07:56:20 EST


On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Claudiu Beznea
<claudiu.beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Add support for reading from different offsets of EEPROM.
> The offset is initialized via device tree. If nothing is
> given as input the old value, 0x90, is used. In this way
> the driver could be used as generic driver for different
> vendor memories by only changing the reading offset via
> device tree.

> + err = device_property_read_u8(dev, "start-offset", &chip->offset);

This property has to be documented.

Moreover, the name looks too broad (I checked current use of
"*-offset" type of properties and they either vendor specific, or data
type specific.

Taking above into consideration mac-offset sounds better to me.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko