Re: [PATCH] iio: accel: add Freescale MMA7455L 3-axis accelerometer driver

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On 10/19/2015 02:19 PM, Joachim Eastwood wrote:
>>> +static int __init mma7455_modinit(void)
>>> +{
>>> +     int ret;
>>> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_I2C)
>>> +     ret = i2c_add_driver(&mma7455_i2c_driver);
>>> +     if (ret)
>>> +             pr_err("failed to register MMA7455L I2C driver: %d\n", ret);
>>> +#endif
>>> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPI_MASTER)
>>> +     ret = spi_register_driver(&mma7455_spi_driver);
>>> +     if (ret)
>>> +             pr_err("failed to register MMA7455L SPI driver: %d\n", ret);
>>> +#endif
>>
>> I know there are a fair amount of bad examples in the IIO tree for this,
>> which do the same thing. But the SPI and the I2C parts should go into
>> different modules, otherwise you run into issues if one of them is built-in
>> while the other is built as a module. The bmg160 gyro driver is a good
>> example on how to do handle this.
> 
> Ok, I semi-copied from a ASoC CODEC driver. I'll take a look at how
> bmg160 handles it.

We deprecated this style in ASoC as well. All new drivers that support both
SPI and I2C always come with a foobar-spi.c and foobar-i2c.c file. Not all
drivers have been updated to this new scheme yet, but I think the majority
follows it by now.

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