Re: add eeprom i2c driver

From: Deepak Saxena (dsaxena@mvista.com)
Date: Tue Mar 25 2003 - 16:50:51 EST


On Mar 25 2003, at 13:32, Greg KH was caught saying:
> > From my experience in seeing I2C eeproms on embedded systems, most
> > people end up writing a custom little driver that does just what I
> > said above: read/write/llseek. The eeprom driver should export the data
> > for each eeprom through /dev/eeprom interfaces This also allows for someone
> > to add a driver for larger EEPROMs (I have 512byte eeproms on some embedded
> > boards) w/o having to add even more entries to sysfs for the remaining data.
>
> I think the "one binary file" will work for all of your varied systems,
> right?

Yes. :)

Thanks,
~Deepak

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

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Deepak Saxena
MontaVista Software - Powering the Embedded Revolution - www.mvista.com

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