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Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM framework

From Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM framework
Date 2015-12-15 11:20 +0100
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> Is there a reason for this driver to be using the old style?
> I can understand the issues with at24/at25 but does this driver also
> suffer from such issues?

In order to keep backwards compatibility, we need the older file in
/sys. The only other option is to remove it and see if anybody
complains about us breaking the ABI.

	  Andrew
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Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM  framework Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-12-15 11:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM  framework Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2015-12-15 11:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM  framework Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-12-15 11:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM  framework Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2015-12-15 11:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM  framework Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2015-12-15 11:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM  framework Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-12-15 12:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the  NVMEM framework Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> - 2015-12-15 12:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 6/6] eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM  framework Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-12-15 13:30 +0100

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