Re: [PATCH] eeprom: move nvmem EEPROM drivers to drivers/nvmem/
From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Thu Jun 18 2026 - 17:06:14 EST
On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 11:18:27AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> For historical reasons EEPROM drivers have lived under
> drivers/misc/eeprom/. Also for historical reasons changes to most of
> them would go through the char-misc tree while some would be queued
> through the I2C tree. Over the years some of them have also been
> converted to using nvmem - the dedicated subsystem for non-volatile
> memory - while get_maintainer.pl does not Cc the maintainer of nvmem on
> patches changing them.
>
> Move the EEPROM drivers using nvmem under drivers/nvmem/ for
> consistency of the review process and path upstream.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I liked the idea since you first mentioned it. I think it makes way
more sense using the nvmem tree than the other trees. Although, I
happily did it for at24 all those years ;)
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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