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Message-ID: <20100415110232.7fc80ac1@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:02:32 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
Cc:	Éric Piel <E.A.B.Piel@...elft.nl>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, khali@...ux-fr.org,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] liss331d1: accelerometer driver

> 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
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