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Re: [PATCH v9 0/9] Add simple NVMEM Framework via regmap.

From Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v9 0/9] Add simple NVMEM Framework via regmap.
Date 2015-08-10 12:40 +0200
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Hi Andrew,

On 09/08/15 16:19, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Srinivas
>
> The AT24 eeprom driver contains the comment:
>
>          /*
>           * Export the EEPROM bytes through sysfs, since that's convenient.
>           * By default, only root should see the data (maybe passwords etc)
>           */
>
> and as you would expect from this:
>
> # ls -l ./devices/platform/soc/soc:aips-bus@40000000/40066000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0050/eeprom
> -rw------- 1 root root 512 Aug  9 10:16 ./devices/platform/soc/soc:aips-bus@40000000/40066000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0050/eeprom
>
> The AT25 and the MAX6875 driver are the same.
>
> However nvmem has different defaults:
>
> # ls -l ./devices/platform/soc/soc:aips-bus@40000000/40066000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0050/0-00500/nvmem
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug  9 10:16 ./devices/platform/soc/soc:aips-bus@40000000/40066000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0050/0-00500/nvmem
>
Yes, nvmem by default sets the read permission for everyone S_IRUGO. 
Which was the most common use case.

> Has this been considered and discussed?
Thanks for bringing this up, No, we did not discuss this explicitly, but 
it should not be an issue to accommodate this. Provider still have 
flexibility to configure such things.

As a first patchset we wanted to keep the framework simple and add 
features as we move on.

Thanks,
srini
>
> Thanks
>      Andrew
>
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Re: [PATCH v9 0/9] Add simple NVMEM Framework via regmap. Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2015-08-09 17:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v9 0/9] Add simple NVMEM Framework via regmap. Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-08-10 12:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v9 0/9] Add simple NVMEM Framework via regmap. Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com> - 2015-08-10 13:30 +0200

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