Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:07:40 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: sysfs and power management |
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:57:01PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I took a look to that. It seems that iio is more or less sysfs based. > > There are ring buffers and event device which are chardev based > > but still the data outside ring buffer and the control is sysfs based. > > IIO is sysfs dependant, heavyweight and makes no sense for some of the > sysfs based drivers. IIO is also staging based and Linus already threw > out the last attempt to unify these drivers sanely with an ALS layer - > which was smaller, cleaner and better !
I think we need to revisit this issue again, before iio is merged to the main kernel tree. I've been totally ignoring the iio user/kernel api at the moment, waiting for things to settle down there.
thanks,
greg k-h
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