Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.

["Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.


> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com>
>> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>; "Dmitry Torokhov" 
>> <dtor@mail.ru>
>>
>>
>> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cameron"
>> ><jic23@cam.ac.uk>
>> >To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
>> >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:36 PM
>> >Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.
>> >
>> >
>> >>Given the lack of further comment, I went ahead and implemented
>> >>the above naming
>> >>scheme for IIO. As the above discussion with Hemanth shows,
>> >>there are some corner cases
>> >>that will need futher thought in the future.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Jonathan, haven't seen many comments on this. Do u think the reason
>> >might be that these interfaces are hidden behind a HAL layer like
>> >in android and
>> >might not be a burning issue for many people.
>> >
>>
>> Dmitry, could you let us know your thoughts on this too.
>> Would using a HAL layer be better compared to creating a standard
>> sysfs interface, as it seems to be the popular approach.
>>
>
> Hemanth,
>
> I do not really see the difference between sysfs interface and HAL
> interface. They both abstract hardware details and bring them to common
> denominator. If you guys can agree on HAL interface I trust sysfs should
> be possible too ;)
>
> BTW, the reason I do not comment on sysfs accelerometer infrastructure
> is because it is not topic I am vested in, my time budget barely covers
> pure input matters. So as long as there is something that is common and
> shared between drivers I would be good with it; you guys need to decide
> on details, please.
>

Dmitry, thanks for the clarification, just wanted to make sure everyone is
on the same page.

As you had suggested, I will push the cma3000 driver without the sysfs
interface. I will parallely work with Jonathan to come up with a standard
sysfs interface.

Thanks
Hemanth