nvmem: Add a simple NVMEM framework for nvmem providers

This patch adds just providers part of the framework just to enable easy
review.

Up until now, NVMEM drivers like eeprom were stored in drivers/misc,
where they all had to duplicate pretty much the same code to register
a sysfs file, allow in-kernel users to access the content of the devices
they were driving, etc.

This was also a problem as far as other in-kernel users were involved,
since the solutions used were pretty much different from on driver to
another, there was a rather big abstraction leak.

This introduction of this framework aims at solving this. It also
introduces DT representation for consumer devices to go get the data
they require (MAC Addresses, SoC/Revision ID, part numbers, and so on)
from the nvmems.

Having regmap interface to this framework would give much better
abstraction for nvmems on different buses.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
[Maxime Ripard: intial version of eeprom framework]
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/Kconfig b/drivers/nvmem/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..de90c82d891b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+menuconfig NVMEM
+	tristate "NVMEM Support"
+	select REGMAP
+	help
+	  Support for NVMEM(Non Volatile Memory) devices like EEPROM, EFUSES...
+
+	  This framework is designed to provide a generic interface to NVMEM
+	  from both the Linux Kernel and the userspace.
+
+	  This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module
+	  will be called nvmem_core.
+
+	  If unsure, say no.