Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:53:55 +0200 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Drop BU27008 and BU27010 | | From | Matti Vaittinen <> |
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On 30/11/2024 16:38, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:34:54 +0200 > Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Drop the support for ROHM BD72008 and BD72010 RGB sensors >> >> I accidentally hit a BU27008 data-sheet which had a big red text saying >> "Obsolete". After a few queries I received a word that the ROHM BU27008 >> and BU27010 RGB sensors were cancelled and never entered mass production. >> Supporting not existing hardware makes no sense, so it's probably best >> to drop the drivers and dt-bindings. >> >> There is still a RGB sensor from ROHM called BU27006. >> https://www.rohm.com/products/sensors-mems/color-sensor-ics/bu27006muc-z-product >> Based on a quick glance this should be very similar to the BU27010. If >> someone wants to create a driver for this, then the bu27008.c might be >> worth looking at. >> >> As writing of this I don't have the BU27006 at my hands, and when I >> asked about creating a driver for this IC from the HQ ... I got an >> impression that at the moment ROHM rather pays me for doing something >> else. So, currently I have no plan to add support for the BD27006. >> We can always dig the bu27008.c from the depths of the git, if it later >> appears such a driver would be a good idea. > > Applied. I'm not going to rush it in because a driver for hardware > that no one has is not really a problem as long as no one does any more > work on it. So queued up in my testing branch which will go upstream > next merge cycle.
Thanks. This makes perfect sense, and I didn't expect them to go in sooner :)
> You have my sympathies wrt to wasted work!
It indeed hurts. You do always hope things you tinker with would be useful. Well, not the first cancelled product I am working with - and I believe not a last one either...
Yours, -- Matti
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