From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Bakker <xc-racer2@live.ca>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>,
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
linux-iio <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linux Input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] input: misc: bma150: Conditionally disable bma023 support
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 21:23:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200507042318.GD89269@dtor-ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR04MB0660BA0E181869F866594E98A3A50@BN6PR04MB0660.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 08:46:12PM -0700, Jonathan Bakker wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On 2020-05-06 5:46 a.m., Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 7:22 PM Jonathan Bakker <xc-racer2@live.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> The bma180 IIO driver has been extended for support for bma023.
> >> However, this could cause conflicts with this driver. Since some
> >> setups may depend upon the evdev setup, disable support in this
> >> driver for the bma023 only when the IIO driver is being built.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Bakker <xc-racer2@live.ca>
> >
> > I would just fix this with KConfig instead, like add mutually
> > exclusive depends on these two drivers.
> >
> > Set this input driver as:
> > depends on BMA180=n
> >
> > And the IIO driver as:
> > depends on INPUT_BMA150=n
> >
> > It's a rough measure but this input driver should anyway
> > go away.
Isn't the driver handle more than bma023? I see bma150 and smb380 ID's.
If we go Kconfig route we will be disabling it for them as well when IIO
driver is enabled.
> >
>
> Ok, sounds good to me. If I include a patch removing the input
> driver, can I just drop this patch entirely?
>
> The only in-tree user of the input driver (based on i2c ids) is Intel
> Mid. Not sure what the kernel policy on dropping drivers is.
Do we still support this platform? I'd start there.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-07 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20200503172206.13782-1-xc-racer2@live.ca>
2020-05-03 17:22 ` [PATCH 1/5] iio: accel: bma180: Prepare for different reset values Jonathan Bakker
2020-05-06 12:37 ` Linus Walleij
2020-05-03 17:22 ` [PATCH 2/5] input: misc: bma150: Conditionally disable bma023 support Jonathan Bakker
2020-05-06 12:46 ` Linus Walleij
2020-05-07 3:46 ` Jonathan Bakker
2020-05-07 4:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2020-05-08 15:57 ` Jonathan Bakker
2020-05-08 19:41 ` Linus Walleij
2020-05-03 17:22 ` [PATCH 3/5] dt-bindings: iio: accel: Add bma023 compatible to bma180 Jonathan Bakker
2020-05-06 12:49 ` Linus Walleij
2020-05-12 22:15 ` Rob Herring
2020-05-03 17:22 ` [PATCH 4/5] dt-bindings: iio: accel: Add required regulators " Jonathan Bakker
2020-05-06 12:49 ` Linus Walleij
2020-05-12 22:15 ` Rob Herring
2020-05-03 17:22 ` [PATCH 5/5] iio: accel: bma180: Add support for bma023 Jonathan Bakker
2020-05-06 12:51 ` Linus Walleij
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