Re: [PATCH 1/2] eeprom: at24: Add support for the Sony VAIO EEPROMs

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:00 PM Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Special handling of the Sony VAIO EEPROMs is the last feature of the
> legacy eeprom driver that the at24 driver does not support. Adding
> this would let us deprecate and eventually remove the legacy eeprom
> driver.
>
> So add the option to specify a post-processing callback function that
> is called after reading data from the EEPROM, before it is returned
> to the user. The 24c02-vaio type is the first use case of that option:
> the callback function will mask the sensitive data for non-root users
> exactly as the legacy eeprom driver was doing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Bartosz, this is a different approach to solving the problem compared
> to your suggestion. It's even more generic in a way. Let me know what
> you think.
>

Patch applied with a stray newline dropped.

Bartosz



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