On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:24:32PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Sorry to annoy you again with that topic, but I'm a little stuck here. > > The 'industrial I/O' thread I was pointed to seems to be orphaned and I > > didn't get much response on the LKML about alternatives either. > > Sorry for the long silence, I have been pretty busy these last days, > and was also hopping for a comment from Jonathan. The industrial I/O > subsystem isn't orphaned, I am fairly certain it will be merged some > day, but it could take some time. Haven't seen any follow-up on it, hence the doubt. > > As hwmon still appears the best existing place for such a driver to live > > in, could we just take it and move it somewhere else as soon somebody > > comes along with some better idea? I'd just like to avoid it being lost, > > and every other approach does not feel very productive currently. > > I agree that it doesn't make sense to wait for the industrial I/O > subsystem to be merged. But I also do not want to put in drivers/hwmon > drivers which do not really belong there. So I'd either go the way you > proposed already (drivers/sensors for non-hwmon sensor drivers) or > simply put your driver in drivers/misc if this is only meant as a > temporary home until the industrial I/O subsystem is merged. Okay, drviers/misc sounds like a good intermediate solution. Do you want me to post another patch for that or will you move it yourself? Thanks, Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
