From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754616AbbHDHTf (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 03:19:35 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:44780 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751667AbbHDHTd (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 03:19:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:19:28 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/27] misc: eeprom: Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers Message-ID: <20150804091928.1a149450@endymion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <55BFBD27.3050309@osg.samsung.com> References: <1438273132-20926-1-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <1438273132-20926-7-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com> <20150803130550.12487244@endymion.delvare> <55BF75A2.90200@osg.samsung.com> <1438620615.10722.10.camel@chaos.site> <55BFBD27.3050309@osg.samsung.com> Organization: SUSE Linux X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 21:12:39 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > On 08/03/2015 06:50 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Yes, the long-term plan is to get rid of the legacy eeprom driver. But > > we need a transition path for users. Either the at24 driver should be > > able to instantiate SPD and EDID devices as the eeprom driver does, or > > we need a user-space helper to do that kind of detection, so that > > consumer scripts such as decode-dimms keep working. The former is a > > smaller change, I just hope it won't have any drawback. > > I'm in fact not familiar with any Atmel SoC. Again, AT24* are EEPROMs, not SoCs. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support