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The binary content of nvmem devices is available to the user so in the easiest cases, finding the content of a cell is rather easy as it is just a matter of looking at a known and fixed offset. However, nvmem layouts have been recently introduced to cope with more advanced situations, where the offset and size of the cells is not known in advance or is dynamic. When using layouts, more advanced parsers are used by the kernel in order to give direct access to the content of each cell, regardless of its position/size in the underlying device. Unfortunately, these information are not accessible by users, unless by fully re-implementing the parser logic in userland. Let's expose the cells and their content through sysfs to avoid these situations. Of course the relevant NVMEM sysfs Kconfig option must be enabled for this support to be available. Not all nvmem devices expose cells. Indeed, the .bin_attrs attribute group member will be filled at runtime only when relevant and will remain empty otherwise. In this case, as the cells attribute group will be empty, it will not lead to any additional folder/file creation. Exposed cells are read-only. There is, in practice, everything in the core to support a write path, but as I don't see any need for that, I prefer to keep the interface simple (and probably safer). The interface is documented as being in the "testing" state which means we can later add a write attribute if though relevant. Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> Tested-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215111536.316972-9-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.