Re: [i2c] [PATCH v2] Add support for Dallas DS28CM00 Unique ID chip

[Mark Jackson]

Mark Jackson wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:42:42 +0100, Mark Jackson wrote:
> > > Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > Nack. No new drivers under drivers/i2c/chips please, it's going away
> > > > soon.
> > > Okay ... where should any new drivers be located ?
> >
> > Depends of what the device does.
> > * Hardware monitoring chip drivers go to drivers/hwmon
> > * RTC chip drivers go to drivers/rtc
> > * I/O expander drivers go to drivers/gpio
> > If you can't find a suitable directory under drivers, either create a
> > new one if that makes sense, or put your driver under drivers/misc.
>
> Ah, now I understand !!  I think drivers/misc is probably a good a place 
> as any,

In fact, I now realise that the device is *really* just a read-only eeprom.

So I'm guessing I don't need a custom driver, I can just use the existing
"at24" driver.

Ho hum ...
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