Hi,
On 21-05-18 15:40, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 21-05-18 15:31, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
On 05/21/2018 03:13 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 14:34 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
On 21-05-18 11:19, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
Patches 6-9 use the new functionality creating one i2c-client per
I2cSerialBusV2 resource to make the sensor cluster on the HP X2
work
and
are posted as part of this series to show how this functionality
can
be
used.
I suppose it's better to do an "MFD" type of IIO driver for that
chip.
Check, for example, drivers/iio/imu/bmi160/bmi160_core.c
That seems to be a single chip listening on a single i2c address / spi
chip-select.
Ooops, wrong reference.
In the BSG1160 case the 3 sensors are listening on 3 different i2c
addresses.
There is a Bosh magnetometer + accelerometer chip (BMC150). We have just
two independent drivers for them. Luckily for ACPI they have different
IDs (on the platforms where it's used like that).
So, my series targeting the series of same IPs under one device...
We could use the drivers/mfd framework, but the we get platform
devices
and we would need to patch all 3 existing drivers to support platform
bindings and get a regmap from there (converting them to regmap where
necessary).
...and in your case MFD sounds better. Though why do you need to have a
common regmap?
I'm not convinced MFD is the right place. You wouldn't really utilize
anything of the MFD subsystem. And in a sense it is not a multi-function
device. It's just multiple devices that are described by the same firmware
description table entry.
But I think some kind of board driver might be useful here that translates
the ACPI description into something more reasonable. I.e. bind to the ACPI
ID and then instantiate the 3 child I2C devices on the same bus. Those do
not have to be platform drivers and you do not have to use regmap.
The current approach adds board specific workarounds to each of the device
drivers. It might be easier to have that managed in a central place.
Right, I considered that, and I'm actually doing pretty much that for
a somewhat similar ACPI case, see:
drivers/platform/x86/intel_cht_int33fe.c
But there things were more complicated and we also needed to attach
device-properties, while at the same time we were also somewhat lucky,
because there are 4 I2cSerialBusV2 resources in the single ACPI fwnode
and we only care about 2-4, so we can have an i2c-driver in
platform/drivers/x86 bind to the 1st resource and then have it
instantiate i2c clients for I2cSerialBusV2 resources 2-4.
The problem with the BSG1160 case is that we want to also have an
iio driver bind to the first i2c-client and that will not work
if an i2c-driver in platform/drivers/x86 binds to the first
i2c-client and the i2c-subsys will rightfully not let us create another
i2c-client at the same address.
About the "board specific workarounds for each of the drivers", I could
check if they are all checking an id register and if so if I could just
let all 3 of them try to bind without issues. This will likely still
require a change to log the id not matching add a less severe log-level.
p.s.
Also there seems to be a pattern here where this is happening more
often, e.g. see also:
https://fedorapeople.org/~jwrdegoede/lenovo-yoga-11e-dstd.dsl
Search for BOSC0200 to find a single Device() blurb describing
2 bma250 accelerometers at 2 different addresses.
And having to write a whole new driver each time this happens is
going to become tedious pretty quick and also seems undesirable.
Just adding a HID to an id-table OTOH for each case seems like a
better (less sucking) solution.
So I think we should not focus too much on the BSG1160 example
and more try to come up with a generic solution for this as
Andy has done.
Regards,
Hans
