On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:36:43 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2011 21:18:09 Jean Delvare wrote: > > 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. > > I generally try to prevent people from adding more ad-hoc interfaces > to drivers/misc. Anything that is called a drivers/misc driver to me > must qualify as "there can't possibly be a second driver with the > same semantics", otherwise it should be part of another subsystem > with clear rules, or be put into its own file system. I see drivers/misc differently. I see it as "not enough drivers of the same type to justify a new subsystem". So I encourage people to put things there in the absence of any suitable subsystem, until someone gets enough motivation to start such a subsystem. This is more pragmatic than requesting subsystems to be created upfront. That being said, staging is another option nowadays. > While it seems that right now everyone is just trying to keep move > the driver to some other subsystem, I think it's worth noting that > it is indeed a useful thing to have the driver, I'm optimistic > that we can find some place for it. ;-) > > Now how about the IIO stuff? This is the first time I've even > heard about it. Does it have any major disadvantages besides > being staging-quality? This is indeed the major disadvantage. IIO seems to take a lot of time to move out of staging, although I don't know what the current ETA is. -- 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
