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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] eeprom: at24: check if the chip is functional in probe()
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 01:32:57PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> The at24 driver doesn't check if the chip is functional in its probe
> function. This leads to instantiating devices that are not physically
> present. For example the cape EEPROMs for BeagleBone Black are defined
> in the device tree at four addresses on i2c2, but normally only one of
> them is present.
>
> If the userspace doesn't know the location in advance, it will need to
> check if reading the nvmem attributes fails to determine which EEPROM
> is actually there.
>
> Try to read a single byte in probe() and bail-out with -ENODEV if the
> read fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>

Applied to for-next, thanks!

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