> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_MTD
> >> + /* NOTE: this should go away as soon as MTD gets nvmem support. */
> >> + if (!addr) {
> >> + struct mtd_info *mtd;
> >> + int rv;
> >> +
> >> + mtd = get_mtd_device_nm("MAC-Address");
> >
> > In order for this to go away, you need to keep backwards
> > compatibility. When using nvmem, you look for a cell called
> > "mac-address". Here you are looking for "MAC-Address". That is going
> > to make backwards compatibility harder. How do you plan to do it?
> >
> > Andrew
>
> I'm trying to adjust to already existing users. The only user of
> get_mtd_device_nm() who calls it to read the MAC address registers a
> partition called "MAC-Address". We can't change it since it's visible
> from user space. In the future we'd just have to have a list of
> supported string that we'd use to do the nvmem lookup.
Why not have the nvmem cell called "MAC-Address"? When you add nvmem
support to MTD, i assume you are going to map each MTD partition to an
nvmem cell?
Andrew
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