Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Date | Thu, 6 May 2021 17:31:01 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] iio: bme680_i2c: Remove ACPI support |
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On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:50 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > On 5/6/21 3:37 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
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> > We (mostly Andy and me) are not even 100% sure this one is > > a fake ACPI ID, but we do pretty strongly believe that it is. > > > > What a mess :-(
What we can do is a checkpatch-alike check for vendor ID to be registered in [1] and issue a warning if not. At least it alerts maintainers. Joe, do you think it is doable or we should have a separate tool for that? (Because I have no clue how checkpatch cohabits with internet connection, otherwise the problem with synchronisation of that registry might be a problem)
[1]: https://uefi.org/PNP_ACPI_Registry
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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