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

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On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:41:32 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I see it now. Sorry and that and thanks for catching and fixing it.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support



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