Re: [PATCH 00/14] ARM: davinci: step towards removing at24_platform_data

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

2018-06-26 15:21 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>:
>> I see. I see it this way: the setup callback comes from the time when
>> we didn't have nvmem and should go away. I will protest loud whenever
>> someone will try to use it again and will work towards removing it as
>> soon as possible.
>
> The setup() callback could be moved into the nvmem framework, rather
> than in the at24 driver. Make the call when the cells have been
> connected to the backing store.
>

This would at least make it more generic. And maybe I could also get
rid of the setup callback from the mityomapl138 board file.

Bart

>> I will give your problem a thought and will try to get back with some
>> proposals - maybe we should, as you suggested, extend nvmem even
>> further to allow to remove nvmem info entries etc.
>
> That does not help me too much. I have the same problem with i2c and
> MDIO. So i actually prefer to keep this the same as all others.
>
>         Andrew