[PATCH v1 00/14] nvmem: core: introduce NVMEM layouts

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

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