On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 3:04 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is nasty as 0x11 is a valid who am I for an LIS3DHH which is a very > different device. The WAI value is just a second line check anyway, the device is probed from the compatible, this is just checked to make sure the device is what it says it is. Annoying, but it will do the job. > It's worth noting that a good part of the maintenance of this driver is > done by ST employees who are probably less than happy with seeing > a clone (with bugs) supported. So support is likely to be somewhat best > effort / not going to deliberately break support for this part but no > means to test it. Hopefully we'll remember to cc you to test anything new added to > the driver. Clones aren't always perfect! Linux began with people running it on IBM PC clones... ;) I would assume good faith, especially with the silicon shortage plaguing us it is perfectly possible that this is a fully licensed copy. I think the two derivatives of the AK8974 magnetometer for example are legally transferred IP, we just don't know the details behind the curtain. Yours, Linus Walleij
