Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:29:33 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lis3lv02d: Add STMicroelectronics lis33ldlh digital |
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:10:45PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Having custom user interfaces inside an input driver however is very > bad. I'm sure that other accelerometers will have the same requirements > regarding polling frequency and enable/disable in android as well as > anytwhere else and it should absolutely not be handled by a user space > HAL but instead inside of the kernel, using a common method for all > available drivers.
The polling frequency thing isn't even accelerometer specific, there's a general need for this on a wide range of other things like touchscreens (where controlling the sample rate is interesting for power, there are widely varying requirements depending on what the screen is doing).
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