Jean Delvare wrote: > 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. Agreed, if anyone has an application they can add the relevant hooks when they need them. -- 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
