Board files are deprecated by DT, and the last user of
nvmem_add_cell_table() was removed by commit 2af4fcc0d3 ("ARM:
davinci: remove unused board support") in v6.3. Hence remove all
support for nvmem cell tables, and update the documentation.
Device drivers can still register a single cell using
nvmem_add_one_cell() (which was not documented before).
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srini@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250509122452.11827-2-srini@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
NVMEM layouts are used to generate NVMEM cells during runtime. Think of
an EEPROM with a well-defined conent. For now, the content can be
described by a device tree or a board file. But this only works if the
offsets and lengths are static and don't change. One could also argue
that putting the layout of the EEPROM in the device tree is the wrong
place. Instead, the device tree should just have a specific compatible
string.
Right now there are two use cases:
(1) The NVMEM cell needs special processing. E.g. if it only specifies
a base MAC address offset and you need to add an offset, or it
needs to parse a MAC from ASCII format or some proprietary format.
(Post processing of cells is added in a later commit).
(2) u-boot environment parsing. The cells don't have a particular
offset but it needs parsing the content to determine the offsets
and length.
Co-developed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230404172148.82422-14-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other
orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book.
Move them to their right place.
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts
Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
