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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Aug 2022 11:49:58 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] iio: humidity: hdc100x: add manufacturer and
 device ID check
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
        Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>,
        Potin Lai <potin.lai.pt@gmail.com>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
        Potin Lai <potin.lai@quantatw.com>,
        linux-iio <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 11:40 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 06/08/2022 20:12, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

...

> >>>>>> compatible = "ti,hdc1099", "silabs,si7020";

...

> Or if second device is so different, why you want to support different
> hardware with the same device node. This contradicts the very basic of
> Devicetree - description of hardware.

Briefly looking into the above mentioned drivers points to the above
case, broken DT principles ==> broken DT ==> nothing to fix in the
Linux kernel.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko