Re: [PATCH] i2c: i801: Register optional lis3lv02d i2c device on Dell machines

Wolfram Sang
2016-12-28T14:03:07Z

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 02:51:01PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 December 2016 14:43:49 Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > > Dell platform team told us that some (DMI whitelisted) Dell
> > > Latitude machines have ST microelectronics accelerometer at i2c
> > > address 0x29. That
> > > i2c address is not specified in DMI or ACPI, so runtime detection
> > > without
> > > whitelist which is below is not possible.
> >
> > I'd think this should rather live somewhere in
> > drivers/platform/x86/dell*.c?
>
> i2c_new_device() with lis3lv02d for i801 i2c bus needs to be called
> after initializing i2c-i801 bus driver.
>
> I have no idea how to do it (properly) outside of i2c-i801.c file.

I once used bus_notifiers to achieve something similar. You could check
arch/arm/mach-shmobile/regulator-quirk-rcar-gen2.c to see an action
triggered once a client device got added, but you could act on another
action like BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER. I used exactly that, too, somewhen
somewhere. Haven't checked if that helps here, too. And since we have
a
precedence (Fujitsu case), I'll leave it to Jean who is the maintainer
of this driver.

Thanks,

Wolfram