From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750790AbWGCKwW (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:52:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750808AbWGCKwW (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:52:22 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:10413 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790AbWGCKwW (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:52:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] Apple Motion Sensor driver From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Michael Hanselmann Cc: Stelian Pop , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, khali@linux-fr.org, linux-kernel@killerfox.forkbomb.ch, johannes@sipsolutions.net, chainsaw@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060703104547.GA25342@hansmi.ch> References: <20060702222649.GA13411@hansmi.ch> <1151921567.10711.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060703104547.GA25342@hansmi.ch> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:49:59 +1000 Message-Id: <1151923799.19419.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:45 +0200, Michael Hanselmann wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:12:47PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote: > > > + > > > +static DEVICE_ATTR(mouse, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, > > > + ams_mouse_show_mouse, ams_mouse_store_mouse); > > > I would prefer three different files for x, y and z instead of a single > > one... > > Because of the way the values are calculated with orientation, that > would mean that if a program needs all three, either all values are read > three times or the ams_sensors function gets much more complicated. > > To prevent it from having to read them three times in a row, I joined > all three values. > > Do you think I should rewrite the ams_sensors function to only get the > correct value? Cache the values and only re-read from the hardware after a given amount of time has elapsed ? > Thanks, > Michael > > (All other issues, including those in the other mails, are clear and > will be addressed by a new patch)