Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Apr 2011 00:15:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] picoxcell-otp: add support for picoxcell OTP devices |
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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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