Message ID | 20200910134239.192030-2-jonathanh@nvidia.com |
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State | New |
Headers | show |
Series | [1/5] misc: eeprom: at24: Initialise AT24 NVMEM ID field | expand |
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 3:43 PM Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> wrote: > > The AT24 EEPROM driver does not initialise the 'id' field of the > nvmem_config structure and because the entire structure is not > initialised, it ends up with a random value. This causes the NVMEM > driver to append the device 'devid' value to name of the NVMEM > device. Although this is not a problem per-se, for I2C devices such as > the AT24, that already have a device unique name, there does not seem > much value in appending an additional 0 to the I2C name. For example, > appending a 0 to an I2C device name such as 1-0050 does not seem > necessary and maybe even a bit confusing. Therefore, fix this by > setting the NVMEM config.id to NVMEM_DEVID_NONE for AT24 EEPROMs. > > Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> > --- > drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c > index e9df1ca251df..3f7a3bb6a36c 100644 > --- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c > +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c > @@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ static int at24_probe(struct i2c_client *client) > > nvmem_config.name = dev_name(dev); > nvmem_config.dev = dev; > + nvmem_config.id = NVMEM_DEVID_NONE; > nvmem_config.read_only = !writable; > nvmem_config.root_only = !(flags & AT24_FLAG_IRUGO); > nvmem_config.owner = THIS_MODULE; > -- > 2.25.1 > This patch is correct and thanks for catching it. I vaguely recall wondering at some point why the appended 0 in the nvmem name for at24. Unfortunately this change would affect how the device is visible in user-space in /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/ and this could break existing users. Also: there are many in-kernel users that would need to be updated. I'm afraid we'll need some sort of backward compatibility. Bartosz
diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c index e9df1ca251df..3f7a3bb6a36c 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c @@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ static int at24_probe(struct i2c_client *client) nvmem_config.name = dev_name(dev); nvmem_config.dev = dev; + nvmem_config.id = NVMEM_DEVID_NONE; nvmem_config.read_only = !writable; nvmem_config.root_only = !(flags & AT24_FLAG_IRUGO); nvmem_config.owner = THIS_MODULE;
The AT24 EEPROM driver does not initialise the 'id' field of the nvmem_config structure and because the entire structure is not initialised, it ends up with a random value. This causes the NVMEM driver to append the device 'devid' value to name of the NVMEM device. Although this is not a problem per-se, for I2C devices such as the AT24, that already have a device unique name, there does not seem much value in appending an additional 0 to the I2C name. For example, appending a 0 to an I2C device name such as 1-0050 does not seem necessary and maybe even a bit confusing. Therefore, fix this by setting the NVMEM config.id to NVMEM_DEVID_NONE for AT24 EEPROMs. Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> --- drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)