Re: Where to put new sensor drivers?

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Thu 2009-03-05 16:03:34, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:41:34PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > I wrote a driver for an I2C connected ambient light sensor and submitted
> > it to the linux-i2c list[1]. In the first place, I wasn't aware of
> > drivers/i2c/chips being deprecated and hencei, I subsequently moved it to
> > what seemed to match best in the current tree, drivers/hwmon. But as
> > Jean Delvare pointed out, this is not the place for it either because it
> > doesn't really monitor the hardware, which is true.
> > 
> > So I posted a proposal[2] patch series that adds drivers/sensors for
> > such cases (some of the drivers in the legacy folder drivers/i2c/chips
> > have the same problem than my new one has) but haven't got reply on it
> > yet, probably because linux-i2c is the wrong place to ask.
> 
> Hmm, no feedback here either? I was pointed to the 'industrial I/O'
> thread[1], but that one didn't go mainline yet, and I didn't find any
> reference of someone picking up this idea.

Well drivers/sensors sounds  sane. Or maybe drivers/senses :-). 

									Pavel
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