Hi, On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 01:12:01PM +0000, James Hartley wrote: > Hi Maxime, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ezequiel Garcia > > Sent: 25 February 2015 12:30 > > To: Maxime Ripard > > Cc: Thierry Reding; Stephen Warren; Arnd Bergmann; Andrew Bresticker; > > James Hartley; [email protected]; linux- > > [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] New eFuse subsystem > > > > > > > > On 02/25/2015 09:02 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > Hi Ezequiel, > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 08:45:12AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > >> This patchset introduces a new driver subsystem, meant to support > > >> eFuse (alias OTP, one-time-programmable) devices. > > >> > > >> The motivation behind this work is to have a common place for drivers > > >> that are currently more or less scattered: the tegra efuses are in > > >> drivers/soc/ and the sunxi efuses in drivers/misc/eeprom. > > >> > > >> For now, there's no proposal for a generic efuse API. Instead, we > > >> simply group the drivers together. > > >> > > >> This patchset is the result of the initial submission for IMG > > >> Pistachio eFuse support [1]. Our first proposal was to follow the > > >> Tegra efuse, and put the Pistachio efuse in drivers/soc. After some > > >> discussion we finally agreed [2] to first create an efuse directoy, > > >> and then put all efuse drivers in it. > > >> > > >> As always, all comments are welcome! > > >> > > >> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg59246.html > > >> [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg389325.html > > > > > > Have you looked at the EEPROM framework currently in discussions? The > > > two seems to be covering pretty much the same use cases. > > > > > Shouldn't this be a PROM framework if it is going to support both > EEPROM and EFUSE/QFPROM, or am I missing something here (since an > eFuse is not eraseable)?
Does it really matter? I mean, it's just a name after all. But feel free to suggest alternatives on the main thread. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com
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