Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add a property in at24.c

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 09:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2018-06-26 8:22 GMT+02:00  <alanx.chiang@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > From: "alanx.chiang" <alanx.chiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > In at24.c, it uses 8-bit addressing by default. In this patch,
> > add a property address-width that provides a flexible method to
> > pass the information to the driver.
> > 
> > alanx.chiang (2):
> >   dt-bindings: at24: Add address-width property
> >   eeprom: at24: Add support for address-width property
> > 
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt |  2 ++
> >  drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c                        | 16
> > ++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
> > 
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> > 
> 
> What is your use case exactly? Do you have an EEPROM model that's not
> yet supported explicitly in the driver? Why would you need this
> option?

The current at24 driver has no address width support, thus, reusing same
(allocated) IDs (non-DT case) is hard.

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy