Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] nvmem: core: set the size for the nvmem binary file.

From: [email-masked] (Greg KH)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:56:12 +0100

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 12:00:55PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> This patch sets the actual size of binary file to the nvmem size.
> Previously this was not possible as the core was using the static global
> data structures for attributes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/nvmem/core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> index 0a70e31..737fa75 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> @@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config)
>  	if (!nvmem->read_only)
>  		nvmem->bin.attr.mode |= S_IWUSR;
>  
> +	nvmem->bin.size = nvmem->size;

Why does the size matter?  What userspace tool needs to know this?

thanks,

greg k-h