Re: [PATCH] Revert "Input: bma150 - avoid binding to bma180 if IIO bma180 driver present" and "Input: bma150 - extend chip detection for bma180"

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 09:16:28PM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
> > Am 01.04.2017 um 18:46 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>:
> > 
> > On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 04:59:26PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> On 01-04-17 16:44, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> >>> This reverts commit baf28d91e7b1 ("Input: bma150 - avoid binding to bma180 if IIO bma180 driver present")
> >>> and commit ef3714fdbc8d ("Input: bma150 - extend chip detection for bma180")
> >>> 
> >>> Rationale: initially (2012) the GTA04 device using a bma180 chip simply refereced
> >>> the bma150 platform driver in its board file [1] which happened to work in all
> >>> scenarios that were tested.
> >>> 
> >>> When conversion to DT started (2014), we needed to make the driver be still
> >>> recognised. Hence we introduced the compatibility to the bma180 chip in
> >>> Linux 3.15-rc5 [2] without further checks if it is really 100% compatible. This
> >>> worked flawlessly for years with the GTA04 device.
> >>> 
> >>> Recently (2016), Hans de Goede pointed out that the chips are not as similar
> >>> as they appeared and the driver works with the bma180 for the GTA04 only
> >>> by good luck. He proposed to remove the bma180 support completely [3], but
> >>> we still did need it until we have a replacement. Thus, a condifional compile
> >>> was added.
> >>> 
> >>> We have now developed a generic iio-input-bridge which works with any 2 or
> >>> 3 axis iio based accelerometer. It has been tested on GTA04 and Pyra and
> >>> works as expected. Therefore we can remove the bma180 support from this
> >>> driver completely. User-space API compatibility can be restored by using the
> >>> iio-input-bridge.
> >>> 
> >>> Maybe it is time to convert the bma150 driver to iio as well and retire the
> >>> accelerometer input drivers completely but this is a different story and task.
> >>> 
> >>> [1]: https://github.com/neilbrown/linux/blob/gta04/3.2.y/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-omap3gta04.c#L976
> >>> [2]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3961171/
> >>> [3]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9325481/
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
> >> 
> >> Looks good to me:
> >> 
> >> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Changed subject slightly (we are not reverting because patches were
> > defective, we are removing support for bma180), and applied.
> 
> Just noticed: the subject in linux-next has a typo:
> Should IMHO be "Input: bma150 - remove support for bma180"
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=f069b5a0b27ad4a87e9351e54fbcab3d3f8a9fd5

Yeah, I screwed up there. Unfortunately it is buries too deep now.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry