Re: [PATCH v2] iio: accel: bmc150: Check for a second ACPI device for BOSC0200

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:08:19 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Steve Presser <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> >> Andy,
> >>
> >> Where did the assertion the second device is a magnetometer come from? Just
> >> the data sheet?  
> >
> > Yep. See chapter 8.2. Isn't enough proof? Or you believe in two
> > accelerometers with off-by-one conflicting address on a cheap laptop
> > with left unused two magnetometers on the same time?
> >
> > And we have a driver for magnetometer separately.
> >
> > So, it looks like we need to move ACPI ID to a new "kinda I2C mfd" IIO
> > driver under drivers/iio/imu/bmc150_i2c.c  
> 
> Even Kconfig for one of the driver states so.
> 
> Looking more to it, I think the patch should be reverted and new
> driver is created instead.

Whilst the question is still open I have dropped the patch.
Was not yet in a non rebasing tree (just in a build test one)
so fine to drop it.


> 
> I'm on it.
> 
> >> Steve
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, 12:05 PM Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:  
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> >>> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> >>> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Cameron
> >>> > <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> >>> >> On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:07:02 +0200
> >>> >> Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> >>> >  
> >>> >>> > But that would take much longer.  Feel free to propose it and a
> >>> >>> > patch
> >>> >>> > removing the ifdef fun if you like!  
> >>> >  
> >>> >>> Where can I see the patch?  
> >>> >  
> >>> >> Doh. I clearly forgot to push out.  Should be able to push to
> >>> >> iio.git on kernel.org later.  
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks, I can see it now.
> >>> >
> >>> > This patch almost wrong. Not by functionality it brings, but by style.  
> >>>
> >>> Oy vey, the second device is *not* accelerometer, it is a magnetometer
> >>> [1].
> >>>
> >>> [1]: https://www.mouser.com/ds/2/783/BST-BMC150-DS000-04-786477.pdf
> >>>  
> >>> > I'll send soon a series of fixes to the driver (compile tested only)
> >>> > to provide my view on the matters.
> >>> >
> >>> > P.S. In the future (I have some kind of deja vu I have told this
> >>> > already to someone), please, Cc one or more of Rafael, Mika and/or me
> >>> > for ACPI matters.  
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> With Best Regards,
> >>> Andy Shevchenko  
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > With Best Regards,
> > Andy Shevchenko  
> 
> 
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