From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758700Ab2DJNWi (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:22:38 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:33507 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752762Ab2DJNWh (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:22:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:25:01 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Mark Brown Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] x86, intel_mid: ADC management Message-ID: <20120410142501.6045c6c0@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120410131206.GB31551@sirena.org.uk> References: <20120410131930.28186.85370.stgit@bob.linux.org.uk> <20120410131206.GB31551@sirena.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:12:06 +0100 Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:20:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > This ended in a discussion of where shall we put it and then silence so > > resending this because we still need it and we've got patches that depend > > upon it getting backlogged. > > The decision seems fairly settled that general purpose ADCs like this It's far lower level than things like IIO. It provides very low level services to other drivers not to user space. You could in theory write an IIO driver to use the interface but at the moment all the consumers are low level hardware drivers and likely to remain so. Alan