This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
eeprom: at24: change nvmem stride to 1
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: eeprom-at24-change-nvmem-stride-to-1.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 7f6d2ecd3d7acaf205ea7b3e96f9ffc55b92298b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Lechner david@lechnology.com Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 19:54:41 -0600 Subject: eeprom: at24: change nvmem stride to 1
From: David Lechner david@lechnology.com
commit 7f6d2ecd3d7acaf205ea7b3e96f9ffc55b92298b upstream.
Trying to read the MAC address from an eeprom that has an offset that is not a multiple of 4 causes an error currently.
Fix it by changing the nvmem stride to 1.
Signed-off-by: David Lechner david@lechnology.com [Bartosz: tweaked the commit message] Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski brgl@bgdev.pl Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c @@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ static int at24_probe(struct i2c_client at24->nvmem_config.reg_read = at24_read; at24->nvmem_config.reg_write = at24_write; at24->nvmem_config.priv = at24; - at24->nvmem_config.stride = 4; + at24->nvmem_config.stride = 1; at24->nvmem_config.word_size = 1; at24->nvmem_config.size = chip.byte_len;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david@lechnology.com are
queue-4.9/eeprom-at24-change-nvmem-stride-to-1.patch