On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 06:35:49PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote: > On 06/04/15 16:04, Matt Porter wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 09:11:05AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > >>>The generic binding could really use a "read-only" property here as this > >>>is a common hardware attribute for many nvmem devices. A serial EEPROM > Correct me If am wrong. > Regarding write protection/read-only, regmap already has provisions to > support this feature. regmap would bail out with errors if any attempt to > write to non-writable regions. It all depends on the data providers how they > setup the regmap and the bindings for those are specific individual data > providers I think. There is the ability to flag read/write permissions in regmap but I think there's some suggestion that this should be exposed to userspace so that it's easier for it to handle things rather than just writing then coping with any errors.
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