On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:55:01 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:05 +0800, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > Some sensors, e.g. tsl2561 use an internal clock to do sampling and hence > > have some predefined period in which the reading taken doesn't change. > > Perhaps exporting said period would be useful to userspace? > > > I don't think so. > IMO, the tsl2561 driver should handle this, and there is no need to > annoy the user space. > i.e. users always assume the content of "illuminance" attribute is > valid, and it's the driver's job to make this true. We don't need to > document this. I agree with Rui on this. Let's not delegate everything to user-space, otherwise it's pointless to write kernel drivers in the first place. -- Jean Delvare -- 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
