Re: [PATCH v1 5/8] iio: accel: bma220: Drop ACPI_PTR() and accompanying ifdeffery

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On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:39:10 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:19 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:08:10 +0300
> > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> > > The driver is quite likely used only on ACPI based platforms and
> > > rarely build with CONFIG_ACPI=n. Even though, the few dozens of bytes
> > > is better than ugly ifdeffery and inclusion of heavy header.  
> >
> > Given this part is readily available on maker type break out boards
> > I doubt it is mostly ACPI.  Rest of the comment is fine though.  
> 
> In-kernel use seems only ACPI (I grepped for pure SPI driver by name
> and didn't find anything).
> I hope we will have DT support for that as well (basically means
> adding OF ID table).
> 

Good to add the explicit DT support, but I think the nasty fallback is
still in place in which the old style ID table is used if we get a match
without manufacturer ID.

So should be possible to instantiate it from DT even without the table.

Jonathan





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