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

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:55:04AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> 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.

True, but as I said, there is no evidence that there is a single user in kernel.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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