From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jonathan Kunkee <jonathan.kunkee@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving magnetometer HMC6352 into IIO subsystem
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:07:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110815220728.62f27e35@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGRJchidA8ZTMcJnmfJpoBjjpG1zYFC4XQT8KKxjQUm4o3CCng@mail.gmail.com>
> Should the HMC6352 digital compass driver (drivers/misc/hmc6352.c)
> be moved under the IIO subsystem (drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer)?
No - that would be a regression .. but read on
> Magnetometers act as ADCs and can have high sampling rates and
> complex internals, so I think that according to
> drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/overview.txt they should almost always
> land in IIO land.
IIO is a staging project that may never go anywhere - some of us are
using magnetometers in product so this alone isn't an answer that works
right now.
> I would be willing to work on the change as I want to submit a similar
> driver for the HMC6343 magnetometer/accelerometer as well.
It would be great if it got added into the IIO subystem *as well*, and in
time when and if IIO goes out of staging it would then eventually replace
the existing drivers.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-15 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-15 20:04 Jonathan Kunkee
2011-08-15 21:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-08-15 23:22 ` Jonathan Kunkee
2011-08-16 8:57 ` Jonathan Cameron
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