Re: [PATCH net-next] Revert "of: net: support NVMEM cells with MAC in text format"

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Jan 11 2022 - 21:28:15 EST


On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:12:06 +0100 Michael Walle wrote:
> This reverts commit 9ed319e411915e882bb4ed99be3ae78667a70022.
>
> We can already post process a nvmem cell value in a particular driver.
> Instead of having yet another place to convert the values, the post
> processing hook of the nvmem provider should be used in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> As mentioned in [1] I think we should discuss this a bit more and revert
> the patch for now before there are any users of it.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20211229124047.1286965-1-michael@xxxxxxxx/

Revert seems reasonable since there are two different proposals,
but I won't pretend to understand the space so if anyone has opinions
please share them.

> btw, now with net-next closed, should this patch have net-next or net as
> the queue in the subject?

net, technically, although currently the trees are pretty much
identical.