Am 2015-03-18 um 19:05 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > 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? > It's connected over I2C. If the included documentation is not clear please tell me what exacly. Thanks! -- 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
