On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 04:18:38PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Increase the portability of the at24 driver by letting it read from > EEPROM chips connected to cheap SMBus controllers that support neither > raw I2C messages nor even I2C block reads. All SMBus controllers > should support either word reads or byte reads, so read support > becomes universal, much like with the legacy "eeprom" driver. > > Obviously, this only works with EEPROM chips up to AT24C16, that use > 8-bit offset addressing. 16-bit offset addressing is almost impossible > to support on SMBus controllers. > > I did not add universal support for writes, as I had no immediate need > for this, but it could be added later if needed (with the same > performance issue as byte and word reads have, of course.) > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This one also Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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