Messages in this thread | | | From | "Hemanth V" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:29:45 +0530 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <kernel@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk> Cc: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>; "Daniel Mack" <daniel@caiaq.de>; "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>; "Wolfram Sang" <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver
> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:39:10 +0100 > Jonathan Cameron <kernel@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> > It would be most useful if the changelog were to fully describe the >> > proposed kernel<->userspace interface. That's the most important part >> > of the driver, because it's the only part we can never change. >> > >> > There is a desultory effort to maintain sysfs API descriptions under >> > Documentation/ABI/. I'd have thought that it would be appropriate to >> > document this driver's ABI in there. >> Agreed, but we get back to the debate of what we should standardise on. > > I'd suggest standardising on one of the existing drivers. That way we > have two compliant drivers and only need to change (n-2) others. If we > pick some new standard then we need to change (n) drivers. >
Currently this driver follows the same sysfs convention as supported by isl29003.c in drivers/misc.
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