Re: [PATCH v8 3/7] iio: accel: kionix-kx022a: Warn on failed matches and assume compatibility

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:51:49 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Mehdi Djait wrote:
> > Avoid error returns on a failure to match and instead just warn with
> > assumption that we have a correct dt-binding telling us that
> > some new device with a different ID is backwards compatible.  
> 
> As we already discussed in the past I think this patch might be
> not okay in case a hardware vendor decides to make incompatible
> device with non-supported yet ID. It might be even harmful to
> the hardware to program register without knowing that this is safe.

That only matters if they 'claim' it is compatible. Otherwise the
driver never probes and we are fine.

DT maintainers view was that the job of the kernel was not to defend
against bugs in device tree firmwares or someone binding the driver
to the wrong device by hand.

> 
> That said, I'm neither NAKing nor reviewing this and leave to
> maintainers to decide.
>