Re: [PATCH v6 7/9] iio: pressure: bmp280: Add support for BMP380 sensor family

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:06:45 +0200
Angel Iglesias <ang.iglesiasg@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2022-09-17 at 14:25 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2022 01:52:13 +0200
> > Angel Iglesias <ang.iglesiasg@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Adds compatibility with the new generation of this sensor, the BMP380.
> > > 
> > > Includes basic sensor initialization to do pressure and temp
> > > measurements and allows tuning oversampling settings for each channel.
> > > 
> > > The compensation algorithms are adapted from the device datasheet and
> > > the repository https://github.com/BoschSensortec/BMP3-Sensor-API.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Angel Iglesias <ang.iglesiasg@gmail.com>  
> > There is one place (around the reset handing) in here where I
> > suspect we'll end up revisiting it because the matching by
> > device ID is not particularly extensible to new devices.  
> 
> Yeah, after the first time you raised that concern I've been thinking that maybe
> it would be better to add a new "init" or "preinit" callback executing first
> boot tasks for a sensor, such as this reset. Please, let me know how I can help
> with this matter. On the other hand, I'll have the BMP390 and BMP581 on my hands
> in a week or two. The BMP390 is almost the same regmap and operations as the
> BMP380, so I think it will be an easy addition. The BMP581 is a new beast that
> brings in lots of changes, but still has a good bunch of similarities.

Agreed, an .init()/.preinit() callback might make sense.

Given you are planning to look at new parts, perhaps wait until you
have a series adding one of those rather than creating churn in the
driver before that point.  Perhaps the BMP581 will require changes
in this area of the driver anyway and we don't want to end up
changing it twice!

Thanks,

Jonathan