From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Denis CIOCCA <denis.ciocca@st.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
linux-iio <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Palmer <daniel@0x0f.com>, Mario TESI <mario.tesi@st.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] iio: st-accel: Add support for Silan SC7A20 and SC7A30E
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:34:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VcWWAWt4Up3XOQ5j9f5x+vEiE+f1ySF9pcPpZJhRJpj9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM7PR10MB3670BE44AE8227C29E8AC48CED5D0@AM7PR10MB3670.EURPRD10.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:19 PM Denis CIOCCA <denis.ciocca@st.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I strongly disagree that these parts will be supported by STMicroelectronics driver.
> We DO NOT want to find out one day that we need to modify our structure in order to support competition. If they need to support this chip, please provide a new driver for that part leaving STMicroelectronics driver managing our parts.
I'm not sure I understand this passage.
Are you telling we have to have Amount_of_Vendors * cloned_component drivers?
This is NOT how Linux kernel works, really.
Look at the pca953x GPIO expander driver, for example. It has tons of
clones supported and no-one died.
> > On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 18:55, Andy Shevchenko
> > <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > No SoB tag?! Hint: `git commit -a -s --amend` would fix this if you
> > > have properly configured Git.
> > >
> >
> > Sorry I wasn't aware it was needed for an RFC.
> >
> > > On top of that, can you add Datasheet: tag with links to the actual
> > > component datasheets?
> >
> > I will do that for the v1 of the patch series. All of the datasheets I've found so
> > far are mostly Chinese but the register tables are in English. I've collected
> > them together
> > here: http://linux-chenxing.org/silan/index.html
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-20 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-11 13:48 [RFC PATCH 0/2] iio: st-accel: Add support for Silan clones Daniel Palmer
2020-08-11 13:48 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add vendor prefix for Silan Daniel Palmer
2020-08-16 8:50 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-08-11 13:48 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] iio: st-accel: Add support for Silan SC7A20 and SC7A30E Daniel Palmer
2020-08-16 8:52 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-08-16 9:27 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-08-16 9:40 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-08-16 9:55 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-16 11:59 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-08-19 18:19 ` Denis CIOCCA
2020-08-20 9:01 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-08-20 9:17 ` Greg KH
2020-08-20 12:27 ` Daniel Palmer
2020-08-20 12:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-08-20 12:34 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2020-08-12 9:20 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] iio: st-accel: Add support for Silan clones Jonathan Cameron
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