Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mani, Rajmohan" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add a property in at24.c | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:31:58 +0000 |
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Hi Bartosz,
> -----Original Message----- > From: Yeh, Andy > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 9:21 AM > To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>; Bartosz > Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> > Cc: Chiang, AlanX <alanx.chiang@intel.com>; linux-i2c <linux- > i2c@vger.kernel.org>; Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>; Mani, > Rajmohan <rajmohan.mani@intel.com>; Andy Shevchenko > <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>; Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>; Mark > Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>; Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>; Greg > Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>; Linux Kernel Mailing List > <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add a property in at24.c > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andy Shevchenko [mailto:andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:48 PM > > To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> > > Cc: Chiang, AlanX <alanx.chiang@intel.com>; linux-i2c <linux- > > i2c@vger.kernel.org>; Yeh, Andy <andy.yeh@intel.com>; Sakari Ailus > > <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>; Mani, Rajmohan > > <rajmohan.mani@intel.com>; Andy Shevchenko > > <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>; Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>; Mark > > Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>; Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>; Greg > > Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>; Linux Kernel Mailing List > > <linux- kernel@vger.kernel.org> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add a property in at24.c > > > > On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 15:30 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > > 2018-06-26 15:23 GMT+02:00 Andy Shevchenko > > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.in > > > tel.com>: > > > > On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 14:36 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > > > > 2018-06-26 14:14 GMT+02:00 Andy Shevchenko > > > > > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>: > > > > > > On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 09:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > > > > > > What is your use case exactly? Do you have an EEPROM model > > > > > > > that's not yet supported explicitly in the driver? Why would > > > > > > > you need this option? > > > > > > > > > > > > The current at24 driver has no address width support, thus, > > > > > > reusing same > > > > > > (allocated) IDs (non-DT case) is hard. > > > > > > > > ^^^^^ > > > > > > > > > Every supported compatible has the width already specified in > > > > > its corresponding chip data. > > > > > > > > > > > > Please, read again carefully what I wrote before. > > > > > > > > > > Ok makes sense in that case. Could you just point me towards an > > > example model which has the address width different than the default > > > for its type? > > > > AFAIK, it's a companion device inside the camera voice coil IC, i.e. > > DONGWOON DW9714. > > > > Nope, actually it is DW9807 instead, which is used on a Samsung Chromebook.
M24C64S is one example, where reusing same id (non-DT case) is not possible, since this model uses 16 bits as address width, as the driver supports only 8 bits address width as default.
Thanks Raj
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