eeprom: at24: check if the chip is functional in probe()
authorBartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:32:57 +0000 (13:32 +0200)
committerWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 06:19:58 +0000 (08:19 +0200)
commit00f0ea70d2b82b7d7afeb1bdedc9169eb8ea6675
tree9ff72c2731c936fd922b006edbf421282b8a2c8e
parent56025e7bc2079cda92643b43bf26991d3d09717d
eeprom: at24: check if the chip is functional in probe()

The at24 driver doesn't check if the chip is functional in its probe
function. This leads to instantiating devices that are not physically
present. For example the cape EEPROMs for BeagleBone Black are defined
in the device tree at four addresses on i2c2, but normally only one of
them is present.

If the userspace doesn't know the location in advance, it will need to
check if reading the nvmem attributes fails to determine which EEPROM
is actually there.

Try to read a single byte in probe() and bail-out with -ENODEV if the
read fails.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c