Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:45:31 +0100 | From | Jonathan Cameron <> | Subject | Re: [spi-devel-general] [Patch 0/4] IndustrialIO subsystem (ADCs, accelerometers etc) |
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hat done for the next >> version (maybe driver specific for now). > Yes, on a second though, this is a low priority point. If userspace is > able to know if the hardware has or not freefall detection, it should be > possible to just implement the software detection in the userspace > daemon. People might come up with lots of "clever" algorithms for that, > so it might be better to not do too much in the kernel ;-) Good point; will leave that one for now.
> >> >> At the moment the big missing element of the subsystem is an easy way of >> querying what is there. (proc interface similar to that for the input >> subsystem) > You mean /sys/class/input/, right? Indeed, something inspired by the > input subsystem should work well. No, I meant /proc/bus/input/devices which gives machine readable description of all devices registered with the input subsystem and their capabilities.
Makes it easier to make userspace code reasonably generic.
-- Jonathan
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