Re: [PATCH v2] iio: bme680_i2c: Remove ACPI support

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 5/6/21 3:37 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 12:28:40PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 6:43 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> With CONFIG_ACPI=n and -Werror, 0-day reports:
> >>>
> >>> drivers/iio/chemical/bme680_i2c.c:46:36: error:
> >>>         'bme680_acpi_match' defined but not used
> >>>
> >>> Apparently BME0680 is not a valid ACPI ID. Remove it and with it
> >>> ACPI support from the bme680_i2c driver.
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> with the SPI part amended in the same way.
> >>
> > Right. I just sent a patch doing that. Oddly enough 0-day didn't complain
> > about that one to me, nor about many other drivers with the same problem.
> > No idea how it decides if and when to make noise.
> > 
> > Is there a way to determine invalid ACPI IDs ?
> 
> No, unfortunately not. There is a format which ACPI IDs are
> supposed to follow, but some "out in the wild" API ids don't
> follow this; and many fake (made up) ACPI ids do follow it...
> 
> We (mostly Andy and me) are not even 100% sure this one is
> a fake ACPI ID, but we do pretty strongly believe that it is.
> 

What a mess :-(

Guenter