On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 19:02 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > Am 2015-03-18 um 17:59 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > > On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 17:42 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > It could have gone to drivers/iio/accel if it would use an iio > > > interface, which would make more sense, you are right, but I > > > simply don't have the time to merge it in to iio. > > > > > > It doesn't use an input interface either but I don't see a good > > > place for an accelerometer that uses sysfs only. > > > > > > It works well, is a relatively recent chip and a clean dirver. > > > But this is all I can provide. > > > > As a person who works on the user-space interaction of those with > > desktops [1]: Urgh. > > > > I already have 3 (probably 4) types of accelerometers to contend > > with, I'm not fond of adding yet another type. > > > > Is there any way to get this hardware working outside the SoCs > > it's designed for (say, a device with I2C like a Raspberry Pi), > > so that a kind soul could handle getting this using the right > > interfaces? > > > > It works on basically any SoC and is in no way limited in this > regard. Sure, userspace has to expicitely support it and I hear you. > Using the iio interface would make more sense. I can only say I'd > love to have the time to move this driver over. I'm very sorry. How can we get the hardware for somebody to use on their own laptops/embedded boards to implement this driver? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
