On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 11:41 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > This is not a problem. lis3lv02d provides two things: > > 1) 3 axes accelerometer > 2) optional interrupt and signal it to userspace via misc device > > dell-smo8800 does not call any parts of lis2lv02d module. It just > provides for userspace same misc device API as lis3lv02d. > > As lis3lv02d has misc device optional, registered i2c device from > i2c-i801 does not enable it. > > So technically it is one device, but their functionality divided into > two modules. One which reports accelerometer axes and one which signals > disk fall interrupt. These two modules and functionalities does not have > to interact, so it is safe to have them separated.
OK, thanks for the explanation. But assuming that we now instantiate the lis2lv02d device from i2c-i801 for exactly all the same machines, can't we just *enable* the freefall misc device feature of lis2lv02d and kill the dell-smo8800 driver completely? Seems more simple to maintain going forward. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
