On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 19:28 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > 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! I'll ask the question a different way: can you please give the address of a shop where that hardware is available? -- 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
