On 08/30/10 18:49, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > Hi All, > > In a thread to do with the cma3000 accelerometer on lkml Dmitry (input maintainer) > in passing mentioned that an iio to input bridge might exist in userspace > using uinput. > > Looks to me like this might kill two birds with one stone for us. > > * Would finally provide a route for all those who want their sensor > drivers in input because they want to use them for games. > * Would provide a fairly good test of the generality of the user space interfaces. > > What do people think of this rather than an in kernel bridge? > > Given it would trivially have access to all of the info on what the sensor is producing > it actually looks much easier to do than the kernel bridge (which was going to need > a userspace configuration element or a lot of changes to our internal structure). > If anyone is curious, I just cc'd the list in on the mega lkml thread because my post includes a quick and dirty hacked together bridge. It works. Annoying my test platform is currently rather unstable (stargate2). Git bisect fun tomorrow. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
