Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 26 May 2012 20:16:22 -0700 | | From | Darren Hart <> | | Subject | Re: LIS331DLH accelerometer driver, IIO or not? |
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On 05/26/2012 06:59 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> Make it an IIO driver and then we can delete the misc driver, which >>> shouldn't have snuck in there in the first place :) >>> >> >> To be more fair to the misc driver, I wouldn't say it snucked in there, >> but more "it ended up there as the least worse place" ;-) > > Because IIO spent forever in staging, as well as blocking lots of other > driver work and meaning tons of drivers are now not to be found anywhere > but obscure git trees. Thankfully they didn't manage to block the LIS > driver during this mess. > > Until all the needed support for the LIS IIO driver exists outside of > staging the driver needs to stay where it is and without IIO > dependancies. It is not acceptable to cripple existing working code with > staging tree dependencies.
Agreed. There will be a few iterations of this driver necessary before it can replace the existing one.
> > Hopefully commit a980e046098b0a40eaff5e4e7fcde6cf035b7c06 has finally set > the basis for this happening when it hits mainline.
Yes, after dusting off the 2.6.34 based IIO driver I started with and moving it forward to 3.2, I am THRILLED to see the IIO core now in mainline :-)
-- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel
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