[PATCH 0/1][SRU][Bionic] add 16-bit width registers support for EEPROM at24 device

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Tue May 12 16:34:49 UTC 2020


On 04.05.20 13:19, AceLan Kao wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876699
> 
> [Impact]
> Larger EEPROM devices that use 16-bit addresses couldn't be accessed.
> 
> [Fix]
> The commit is from
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/545292/
> 
> Unfortunately, this commit doesn't get into mainline in the end, so I
> migrate the commit to latest kernel and finally get it merged.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/24/635

Hi AceLan,

These two patches mentioned above seem to be completely different. The commit
message is similar, but they add different code to different files.

Also, the patch has a "From: ..." tag but there is no s-o-b of the author of
the patch.

Can you please clarify?


Thanks,
Kleber


> 
> [Test]
> Verified on Eurotech's platforms.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Low, this patch only changes the behavior of the device which has
> AT24_FLAG_ADDR16 flag and change the page_size to 64 if the device name is 24c256.
> 
> Pieri (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: at24: add 16-bit width registers support
> 
>  drivers/misc/eeprom/Kconfig |   5 +-
>  drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c  | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 




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