Re: [PATCH v14 0/8] NVMEM cells in sysfs

[Luca Ceresoli]

Hi Miquèl,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:37:29 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> As part of a previous effort, support for dynamic NVMEM layouts was
> brought into mainline, helping a lot in getting information from NVMEM
> devices at non-static locations. One common example of NVMEM cell is the
> MAC address that must be used. Sometimes the cell content is mainly (or
> only) useful to the kernel, and sometimes it is not. Users might also
> want to know the content of cells such as: the manufacturing place and
> date, the hardware version, the unique ID, etc. Two possibilities in
> this case: either the users re-implement their own parser to go through
> the whole device and search for the information they want, or the kernel
> can expose the content of the cells if deemed relevant. This second
> approach sounds way more relevant than the first one to avoid useless
> code duplication, so here is a series bringing NVMEM cells content to
> the user through sysfs.

I successfully tested the whole series, independently from Miquèl's
tests and on different hardware:

[tested on ARM64 + an I2C EEPROM with overlay loading/unloading]
Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Luca

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