Re: [PATCH] rtc: sun6i: Add NVMEM provider

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 30/04/2021 11:02:06+0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 08:45:49PM -0500, Samuel Holland wrote:
> > The sun6i RTC provides 32 bytes of general-purpose data registers.
> > They can be used to save data in the always-on RTC power domain.
> > The registers are writable via 32-bit MMIO accesses only.
> > 
> > Expose the region as a NVMEM provider so it can be used by userspace and
> > other drivers.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As far as I understood, you want to use those registers to implement
> super-standby? If so, while it makes sense for the kernel to be able to
> be able to write to those registers, I guess it would be a bit unwise to
> allow the userspace to access it?

I would think nvmem is still the proper subsystem. I guess maybe we
should have a version of __nvmem_device_get that would ensure exclusive
access to a cell, thus preventing userspace accessing it as long a the
kernel is using it.

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