On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:18:09PM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:14:19 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > On 03/14/11 19:46, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Monday 14 March 2011 20:19:20 Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > >> The big issue raised last time around is that this is not a conventional human > > >> input device. Hence Dmitry isn't going to take it into input. That doesn't > > >> just mean that you have to move it's physical location; it also means you have > > >> to not use the input interfaces at all. > > > > > > How about making this a hwmon driver instead? > > > There are already a number of temperature sensor drivers in > > > driver/hwmon/, I think it would fit in well there. > > hwmon are fairly forceful about not taking things that aren't for monitoring > > hardware. Even the humidity sensors in there are still controversial. > > As it has been suggested I've cc'd Guenter and Jean just in case I'm wrong on > > this. > > Jonathan is correct. Pressure sensors are not hardware monitoring > devices, their drivers have nothing to do in drivers/hwmon. This is > something for drivers/misc or staging/iio. > Absolutely agree. Guenter > > > This would mean moving it to the other directory, > > > registering it to the common hwmon api (hwmon_device_register) > > > and rewriting the user API to blend in with the other > > > hwmon drivers. > > -- > Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
