Re: [PATCH 3/3] IIO: st_accel.h: sync DT and I2C device ID table strings

[Nikolaus Voss]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:45:54 +0200
> Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I2C device ID table strings should really match the DT compatible
> > strings (without the manufacturer prefix) to avoid confusion. This is
> > especially reasonable when using ACPI PRP0001 HID /DT compatibility
> > entries along with the DT compatible property in DSD which is
> > used as a modalias (with manufacturer prefix stripped off) by the ACPI
> > layer and thus as i2c_board_info->type by the I2C layer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Nice to have I agree.  However, it's an ABI change as this is exposed
> via
> /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:\deviceN/name and is used by lots of scripts
> etc to identify the device.  So we are stuck with it.
>
> There is a reason we've kept this mess here for quite some time.

Ok, I feared there could be some reason ;-). Tell me, if you want me to 
respin anything...

Niko