Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table for retrieving frequency

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Mon May 22 2017 - 13:38:51 EST


On 2017-05-22 19:36, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2017-05-22 19:26, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 2017-05-22 19:20, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2017-05-22 19:12, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>>> And since there is no difference to the frequency the name is enough.
>>>>> So, I wouldn't go with this series as is. See above.
>>>>
>>>> Nope: Just like for the stmmac, we need to include the asset tags to
>>>> avoid matching variations of the devices which may carry the same board
>>>> name. While I will try to avoid that this happens, we are better safe
>>>> than sorry here.
>>>
>>> Do we have an issue right now?
>>> Yes / No
>>
>> Andy, we are trying to design a robust upstream driver here, no ad-hoc
>> BSP that will not survive the hardware anyway.
>
> You didn't answer my question...
>
> I do not see a good point to solve the issue that might happen in the future.
>

While I do - that's why your question is misleading.

Then let's leave the decision up to the maintainer.

Jan

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