On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 08:37:01 AM, Stefan Wahren wrote: > Hi Marek, Hi! > Am 20.07.2015 um 00:07 schrieb Marek Vasut: > > On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 12:04:56 AM, Stefan Wahren wrote: > >> This patch series brings read-only support for the On-Chip OTP cells > >> in the i.MX23 and i.MX28 processor. > >> > >> It has been a long time since V3 of this series [1]. The last version > >> has been rejected because there was no standard interface to the OTP > >> data. So this version bases on V7 of the new NVMEM framework [2] which > >> required a nearly complete rewrite of the driver. > >> > >> [1] - > >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-October/29522 > >> 8. html [2] - > >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-July/355652.h > >> tm l > > > > Are you sure you even want this support in kernel ? > > definitely. But only read-only support make sense. Please believe me, i > didn't wait since last year for the NVMEM framework just for fun. :) > > Isn't it enough to have > > this in some manufacturing-time mutated bootloader to program the OTP > > once and never touch it again ? > > No, our products uses a previous version of this patch series to set the > MAC address of a network interface from OTP data. I also get some > feedback from other users that they are happy about this driver. OK, now I understand. This makes perfect sense indeed. Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
