On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 04:30:01PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
[ Upstream commit e70d8b287301eb6d7c7761c6171c56af62110ea3 ]
The compatibility "eeprom" attribute is currently root-only no matter what the configuration says. The "nvmem" attribute does respect the setting of the root_only configuration bit, so do the same for "eeprom".
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare jdelvare@suse.de Fixes: b6c217ab9be6 ("nvmem: Add backwards compatibility support for older EEPROM drivers.") Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski bgolaszewski@baylibre.com Cc: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190728184255.563332e6@endymion Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
This is the backport of commit e70d8b287301 "nvmem: Use the same permissions for eeprom as for nvmem" for stable kernel branches 4.19, 4.14 and 4.9. Thanks.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h