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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "Éric Piel" <E.A.B.Piel@tudelft.nl>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, khali@linux-fr.org,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] liss331d1: accelerometer driver
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:02:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100415110232.7fc80ac1@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC6EA64.4070308@cam.ac.uk>

> Err. Anyone get a feeling of deja vu here?
> 
> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009-September/026706.html
> 
> When Kalhan originally posted this driver it was pointed out that it
> was compatible with the existing one.  A complete lack of
> communications lead to Kalhan (and someone else, might have been Eric
> or Samu, can't recall) both implementing i2c support in the driver.
> Can't find it right now but I'm fairly sure Kahlan reported that
> worked fine for this chip as well?
> 
> So looks like a lack of communications here and that Alan has picked
> up an unnecessary driver.

Thanks it does indeed - except for the retry logic which has come from
another platform source and can be submitted in turn. Only other thing I
see odd is that the existing driver prints a scary error message when
there is no IRQ rather than just an info message.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-15 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-14 12:51 [PATCH 0/4] Various intel small device drivers Alan Cox
2010-04-14 12:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] hmc6352: Add driver for the HMC6352 compass Alan Cox
2010-04-14 13:48   ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-04-14 14:32     ` Alan Cox
2010-04-14 14:51       ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-04-14 15:19         ` Alan Cox
2010-04-14 16:39           ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-04-14 21:36           ` Joe Perches
2010-04-15 12:11             ` Alan Cox
2010-04-15 15:57               ` Joe Perches
2010-04-14 16:56         ` isl29020: ALS driver as misc device Alan Cox
2010-04-14 17:01           ` Greg KH
2010-04-15 10:09             ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-04-15 11:17               ` Alan Cox
2010-04-26 10:59                 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-04-14 12:51 ` [PATCH 2/4] isl29020: ambient light sensor Alan Cox
2010-04-14 22:45   ` Daniel Mack
2010-04-14 22:35     ` Alan Cox
2010-04-15  6:20       ` Daniel Mack
2010-04-15 10:15         ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-04-14 12:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] liss331d1: accelerometer driver Alan Cox
2010-04-14 22:12   ` Éric Piel
2010-04-14 22:34     ` Daniel Mack
2010-04-14 23:05       ` Neil Brown
2010-04-15  9:47         ` Éric Piel
2010-04-14 22:37     ` Alan Cox
2010-04-15 10:28     ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-04-15 10:02       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-04-15 19:12   ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-14 12:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] emc1403: thermal sensor support Alan Cox
2010-04-14 13:30 ` [PATCH 0/4] Various intel small device drivers Jean Delvare
2010-04-14 13:49   ` Alan Cox
2010-04-14 13:55     ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-04-14 14:19       ` Alan Cox

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