Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:03:16 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Sensor event related attribute naming. |
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com> > To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>; "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@mail.ru> > > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk> >> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk> >> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:36 PM >> Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming. >> >> >>> Given the lack of further comment, I went ahead and implemented the above >>> naming >>> scheme for IIO. As the above discussion with Hemanth shows, there are >>> some corner cases >>> that will need futher thought in the future. >>> >> >> Jonathan, haven't seen many comments on this. Do u think the reason >> might be that these interfaces are hidden behind a HAL layer like in >> android and >> might not be a burning issue for many people. >> > > Dmitry, could you let us know your thoughts on this too. > Would using a HAL layer be better compared to creating a standard > sysfs interface, as it seems to be the popular approach.
What "HAL layer"? HAL the userspace project is now dead, so you should standardize on a common sysfs or some other user/kernel api that the kernel exports for the same type of devices to make it so that everything works the same way.
thanks,
greg k-h
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