On 9/3/09, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 03:22 +0800, Alan Jenkins wrote: >> On 9/1/09, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Introduce ALS sysfs class. >> > >> > ALS sysfs class provides a standard sysfs interface for >> > Ambient Light Sensor devices. >> > >> > please read Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-als for >> > detailed sysfs designs. >> > >> > CC: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> >> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> >> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> >> > --- >> >> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/als/Kconfig >> > @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ >> > +# >> > +# Ambient Light Sensor sysfs device configuration >> > +# >> > + >> > +menuconfig ALS >> > + tristate "Ambient Light Sensor sysfs device" >> > + help >> > + This framework provides a generic sysfs interface for >> > + Ambient Light Sensor devices. >> > + If you want this support, you should say Y or M here. >> >> Gratuitous nitpick: >> Can this option be made non-visible (or hidden behind CONFIG_EMBEDDED)? >> >> Maybe you copied the pattern of the thermal sysfs interface - but the >> ACPI thermal driver is useful to keep your computer cool even without >> the sysfs interface. ALS drivers are useless without the sysfs >> interface, no? >> > ACPI ALS device driver is the first user of this sysfs class. > I think there will be more native ALS device drivers in the future, > which locate at drivers/als/ and depends on CONFIG_ALS. > > thanks, > rui Oh! So it may become a menu like e.g. hwmon. Thanks for the explanation Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
