Re: [PATCH 0/2] eeprom: at24: write-protect pin support

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Wed Dec 20 2017 - 03:27:30 EST


2017-12-19 17:14 GMT+01:00 Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>:
> AT24 EEPROMs have a write-protect pin, which - when pulled high -
> inhibits writes to the upper quadrant of memory (although it has been
> observed that on some chips it disables writing to the entire memory
> range).
>
> On some boards, this pin is connected to a GPIO and pulled high by
> default, which forces the user to manually change its state before
> writing. On linux this means that we either need to hog the line all
> the time, or set the GPIO value before writing from outside of the
> at24 driver.
>
> This series adds support for the write-protect pin split into two
> parts. The first patch extends the relevant binding document, while
> the second modifies the at24 code to pull the write-protect GPIO
> low (if present) during write operations.
>
> Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
> dt-bindings: at24: new optional property - write-protect-gpios
> eeprom: at24: add support for the write-protect pin
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt | 4 ++++
> drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> --
> 2.15.1
>

Superseded by v2.

Thanks,
Bartosz