In message 200801231729.18316.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
the semantics are irrelevant. it's an external non-volatile memory device accessed via the eeprom command. the document you posted looks like that device doesnt have any way of querying it, so eeprom_info() for that device
Indeed. There is no way to query such devices.
would be useless. if this is normal among i2c eeproms, i'll repost the patch
Thsi is normal for basicly *all* EEPROM and FRAM devices I know with I2C or SPI interfaces.
with eeprom_info behind CONFIG_SPI. most SPI flashes nowadays support the jedec id command which allows for dynamic detection (which is how the Blackfin SPI driver that i wrote works). hook up any SPI flash and it "jus> t works".
I think you are doing something wrong when you try to use "eeprom" to access "SPI flash" - these are differnt entities...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk