Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: i801: Register optional lis3lv02d i2c device on Dell machines

[Jean Delvare]

On Tue, 28 May 2019 11:54:02 +0200, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2019 11:50:15 Jean Delvare wrote:
> > OK, thanks for the explanation. But assuming that we now instantiate
> > the lis2lv02d device from i2c-i801 for exactly all the same machines,
> > can't we just *enable* the freefall misc device feature of lis2lv02d
> > and kill the dell-smo8800 driver completely? Seems more simple to
> > maintain going forward.  
> 
> I though about it and I already wrote that is it not practical. For ACPI
> drivers there is easy way to get that interrupt number from ACPI tables.
> From i2c-i801 PCI driver it is hard to get interrupt number for
> particular ACPI device...
> 
> That is way I preferred simple solution: ACPI driver for ACPI device and
> i2c driver for i2c device.

OK, fine with me then :-)

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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support