NVMEM and environment variables.

["Steven J. Hill" <sjhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The nvmem subsystem shows promise with regards to eeprom and efuse
driver organization and utilization of those values by other drivers.
Where it seems to be lacking is the use case of eeprom and environment
variables accessible by userspace. It seems silly to have a nvmem
driver with a single 'nvmem' or 'eeprom' binary attribute, but still
have to use 'dd' to get individual data values when they are declared
in the device tree. Why is a binary attribute not created in /sys for
each nvmem cell in the process?

I played with a mtd-nvmem driver that treated each eeprom environment
variable like a mtd character device. This was an idea so horrible the
code will never be public. I also tried a hybrid nvmem driver which
acted as producer and consumer, another monstrosity. So, in summary
why are binary attributes not be created for each nvmem cell? Other
design ideas are welcome. Cheers.

- -Steve
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