Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] dt-bindings: iio: light: al3010: add al3000a support

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чт, 13 лют. 2025 р. о 22:15 Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> пише:
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 09:39:06PM +0200, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> > ср, 12 лют. 2025 р. о 21:20 Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> пише:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 08:46:55AM +0200, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> > > > AL3000a is an ambient light sensor quite closely related to
> > > > exising AL3010 and can re-use exising schema for AL3010.
> > >
> > > Quite close you say, but the driver is entirely different it seems. How
> > > closely related is the hardware itself?
> > >
> >
> > Well, I can simply duplicate al3010 or al3320a schema if re-using
> > schema is not allowed. AL3000a has no available datasheet online.
> > Downstream code for al3000a and al3010 seems to have same principles,
> > apart from light measurements.
>
> It's probably more of a question as to why you're duplicating the driver
> for them, rather than telling you not to put both bindings together.
> That said, information on what's actually different is helpful in the
> binding, to explain why you're not using a fallback compatible etc.
>

Quoting writing-bindings.rst:
DON'T refer to Linux or "device driver" in bindings. Bindings should
be based on what the hardware has, not what an OS and driver currently
support.


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