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    at24: Fall back to byte or word reads if needed · 7aeb9664
    Jean Delvare 提交于
    Increase the portability of the at24 driver by letting it read from
    EEPROM chips connected to cheap SMBus controllers that support neither
    raw I2C messages nor even I2C block reads. All SMBus controllers
    should support either word reads or byte reads, so read support
    becomes universal, much like with the legacy "eeprom" driver.
    
    Obviously, this only works with EEPROM chips up to AT24C16, that use
    8-bit offset addressing. 16-bit offset addressing is almost impossible
    to support on SMBus controllers.
    
    I did not add universal support for writes, as I had no immediate need
    for this, but it could be added later if needed (with the same
    performance issue as byte and word reads have, of course.)
    Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
    Reviewed-by: NWolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
    Cc: Konstantin Lazarev <klazarev@sbcglobal.net>
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