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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/2] picoxcell-otp: add support for picoxcell OTP devices
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:16:58PM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > picoxcell devices contain a block of OTP memory that can be used for
> > storing first-stage bootloaders, cryptographic keys and other data to be
> > kept onchip. Different devices support a number of redundancy formats
> > to cope with in-field programming errors and can be partitioned into
> > regions to allow different redundancy formats with different effective
> > sizes.
> >
> > This patch implements an OTP device layer which different devices may
> > register their OTP regions with.
>
> Great, but why put it in drivers/char/? Why not drivers/otp/?

Why not drivers/mtd ? It's one time programmable memory technology
device if I'm not missing something.

Thanks,

tglx


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