Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] iio:adc:ti-adc081c: Drop ACPI ids that seem very unlikely to be official.

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On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 12:23 PM Jonathan Cameron
<Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:14:41 +0100
> Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > We have no known users of these in the wild.
> > it seems very unlikely these are real IDS having the form ADCXXXX
> > as that ID is owned by Achnor Datacomm not TI.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Kunyang reports that ACPI ID ADC081C is out in the wild on some
> AAEON boards.

Can AAEON clarify about all IDs in the kernel they have been (ab)using
so far? Then we probably need some comments. Also I would like to be
assured by AAEON that they won't make such mistakes in the future.

> I'll send out a partial revert soon to bring back that ID with appropriate
> comments on where it was used.

Yes, please.

> Key thing in future for these sorts of IDs is we need clarity
> on who is using them before agreeing to take them. In this particular
> my undestanding is the driver came first and as it worked the AAEON
> firmware team used the ID.

Yes, because it's definitely not an officially registered one.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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