On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:08:17 +0100 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:31:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 4:58 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > David Lechner (1): > > > counter:ti-eqep: remove floor > > > > I'm not sure why that ti-eqep counter driver seems to be in your > > "iio/staging" pile rather than "char/misc", but whatever.. > > Jonathan said why that was needed, I think it was due to fixes in the > counter core code, but he can verify this better than I can... Hi Linus / Greg, Bit of history involved here... The counter drivers started out as just another sensor type under IIO, but ended up pushing the boundaries of the ABI a lot - ultimately making it clear that they really didn't fit in IIO. William came up with a better abstraction / framework that became drivers/counter/, but currently the patch flow for drivers/counter/ is sufficiently low that I handle their patches along side IIO rather than via a separate tree. There is also a cross dependency because of legacy IIO ABI though we are aiming to drop that either this cycle or next. Hope that clears it up. If either of you would prefer it a different way in future let me know. This particular fix was local to the driver - it was pretending it supported something that hardware couldn't actually do. Thanks, Jonathan > > thanks, > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
