Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] iio: light: tsl2591: fix lux calculation and precision, add I2C ID table, report saturation

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 04:06:28 EST


On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Jan Remes wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:50:10 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 10:17:08AM +0200, Jan Remes wrote:
> > > On Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:14:11 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

...

> > > FWIW, I don't think it to be very urgent, as people probably don't use
> > > it on x86-64 (seeing both as it had only DT probe support and that
> > > impacted users are likely to have noticed the oops).
> >
> > What do you mean by the second part of the sentence? It's as easy to use on
> > ACPI platforms as on DT, we have so nice trick called PRP0001, which allows to
> > enumerate "OF-only" drivers on ACPI platforms via SSDT overlays (or other means
> > of DSDT/SSDT provisioning).

> I did not know about the PRP0001 (thanks), so please disregard that
> argument. Still, I believe x86 users to be few if any, since the oops is
> quite easy to trigger

True.

> and AFAIK most x86 distro kernels ship without CONFIG_OF.

How is this relevant? This driver doesn't use any #ifdef CONFIG_OF or alike,
so most likely the driver is available for x86 as well.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko