From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423082AbcBQNjI (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:39:08 -0500 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([178.209.37.122]:50141 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422804AbcBQNjF (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:39:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:39:00 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn To: Srinivas Kandagatla Cc: GregKH , maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com, wsa@the-dreams.de, broonie@kernel.org, vz@mleia.com, fd@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com, bgolaszewski@baylibre.com Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 0/7] Convert exiting EEPROM drivers to NVMEM Message-ID: <20160217133900.GC17326@lunn.ch> References: <1455666097-9115-1-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch> <56C448B5.1040001@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56C448B5.1040001@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:17:25AM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for the patches, they look good. > > Do we have any reason why we should not move these drivers from > drivers/misc/eeprom to drivers/nvmem? We would have to be careful with the kconfig options. We need to keep backwards compatibility. So the AT24 driver would need to continue using EEPROM_AT24, etc. This might be possible. But i would prefer to do it as a separate patch once these patches are accepted. Thanks Andrew