[RFC PATCH v1 13/14] nvmem: layouts: u-boot-env: add device node

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Sun Aug 28 07:36:57 PDT 2022


Am 2022-08-28 15:55, schrieb Rafał Miłecki:
> On 25.08.2022 23:44, Michael Walle wrote:
>> Register the device node so we can actually make use of the cells from
>> within the device tree.
>> 
>> This obviously only works if the environment variable name can be 
>> mapped
>> to the device node, which isn't always the case. Think of "_" vs "-".
>> But for simple things like ethaddr, this will work.
> 
> We probably shouldn't support undocumented syntax (bindings).

If we only support a predefined list of variables, we can make them
device tree compatible anyway. E.g. we could have a mapping
"serial-number" <-> "serial#"

-michael

> I've identical local patch that waits for
> [PATCH] dt-bindings: nvmem: u-boot,env: add basic NVMEM cells
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/devicetree-bindings/patch/20220703084843.21922-1-zajec5@gmail.com/
> to be accepted.



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