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From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>,
	"Michael Walle" <michael@walle.cc>,
	"Miquel Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
	"Vignesh Raghavendra" <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
	"Srinivas Kandagatla" <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>,
	"Shawn Guo" <shawnguo@kernel.org>, "Li Yang" <leoyang.li@nxp.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Frank Rowand" <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/14] nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:48:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8995b1ce-e236-1272-39d6-2dd498aafb38@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <768ff63a-54f5-9cde-e888-206cdf018df3@milecki.pl>

On 28/08/2022 18:05, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 25.08.2022 23:44, Michael Walle wrote:
>> This is now the third attempt to fetch the MAC addresses from the VPD
>> for the Kontron sl28 boards. Previous discussions can be found here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211228142549.1275412-1-michael@walle.cc/
>>
>>
>> NVMEM cells are typically added by board code or by the devicetree. But
>> as the cells get more complex, there is (valid) push back from the
>> devicetree maintainers to not put that handling in the devicetree.
> 
> I dropped the ball waiting for Rob's reponse in the
> [PATCH 0/2] dt-bindings: nvmem: support describing cells
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/0b7b8f7ea6569f79524aea1a3d783665@walle.cc/T/
> 
> Before we go any further can we have a clear answer from Rob (or
> Krzysztof now too?):
> 
> 
> Is there any point in having bindings like:
> 
> compatible = "mac-address";
> 
> for NVMEM cells nodes? So systems (Linux, U-Boot) can handle them in a
> more generic way?

I think Rob is already in the subject, but I wonder how would that work
for U-Boot? You might have multiple cards, so how does this matching
would work? IOW, what problem would it solve comparing to existing
solution (alias to ethernet device with mac-address field)?

Best regards,
Krzysztof

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-31  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-25 21:44 [PATCH v1 00/14] nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 01/14] net: add helper eth_addr_add() Michael Walle
2022-09-01 16:26   ` Michael Walle
2022-09-01 16:31     ` Andrew Lunn
2022-09-01 19:54     ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 02/14] of: base: add of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args() Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 03/14] nvmem: core: add an index parameter to the cell Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 04/14] nvmem: core: drop the removal of the cells in nvmem_add_cells() Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 05/14] nvmem: core: add nvmem_add_one_cell() Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 06/14] nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts Michael Walle
2022-08-26  8:16   ` Michael Walle
2022-08-28 14:06   ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-08-28 14:33     ` Michael Walle
2022-08-30 13:36   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2022-08-30 14:24     ` Michael Walle
2022-08-30 14:43       ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2022-08-30 15:02         ` Michael Walle
2022-08-30 15:23           ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 07/14] nvmem: core: add per-cell post processing Michael Walle
2022-08-30 13:37   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2022-08-30 14:20     ` Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 08/14] dt-bindings: mtd: relax the nvmem compatible string Michael Walle
2022-08-31  7:37   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-08-31  7:48     ` Michael Walle
2022-08-31  7:55       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-08-31 21:48   ` Rob Herring
2022-08-31 22:30     ` Michael Walle
2022-09-02 14:46       ` Rob Herring
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 09/14] dt-bindings: nvmem: add YAML schema for the sl28 vpd layout Michael Walle
2022-08-26 16:05   ` Rob Herring
2022-08-31  7:45   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-08-31  8:17     ` Michael Walle
2022-08-31  9:24       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-08-31  9:51         ` Michael Walle
2022-08-31 13:07           ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-08-31 15:29             ` Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 10/14] nvmem: layouts: add sl28vpd layout Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 11/14] nvmem: core: export nvmem device size Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [RFC PATCH v1 12/14] nvmem: layouts: rewrite the u-boot-env driver as a NVMEM layout Michael Walle
2022-08-28 14:04   ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-08-28 14:42     ` Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [RFC PATCH v1 13/14] nvmem: layouts: u-boot-env: add device node Michael Walle
2022-08-28 13:55   ` Rafał Miłecki
2022-08-28 14:36     ` Michael Walle
2022-08-25 21:44 ` [PATCH v1 14/14] arm64: dts: ls1028a: sl28: get MAC addresses from VPD Michael Walle
2022-08-28 15:05 ` [PATCH v1 00/14] nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts Rafał Miłecki
2022-08-29  8:22   ` Michael Walle
2022-08-30 13:37     ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2022-08-31  7:48   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]

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