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SubjectRe: [v4 12/14] iio: imu: add BNO055 serdev driver
On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:48 AM Andrea Merello
<andrea.merello@gmail.com> wrote:
> Il giorno sab 16 apr 2022 alle ore 10:45 Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 7:40 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:00:03 +0200
> > > Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com> wrote:

...

> > > > +CFLAGS_bno055_ser.o := -I$(src)
> > >
> > > Via a bit of grepping I can see other instances of this pattern which point out
> > > that it's to do with allowing the tracing framework to see trace.h.
> > > Perhaps a similar comment here would be good (if nothing else I doubt I'll
> > > remember why this magic is here in a few years time!)
> >
> > Can be done better way, see dwc3 or drivers/base/ trace point implementations.
>
> May you elaborate, please? It appears that both dwc3 and driver/base
> use this same trick of tweaking the CFLAGS in the Makefile in order to
> fix the header file thing. What I see is different is that they both
> use an (almost empty) trace.c file. Is this what you are suggesting?

There are two differences in your code:
1) no separate c module, which...
2) is built depending on CONFIG_TRACE.

Hence, no need to have a separate ugly config option.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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