On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 06:32:50AM -0400, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > > I'd love to see some reasoning why hardware monitoring drivers are > > moved to or directly written in iio. > > > > Also, I seem to be missing your point re "high performance devices". > > Are you saying that hwmon is not suitable for high performance > > hardware monitoring devices ? > Yes. Point me at someone doing 1MSps or higher via pretty printing through > a sysfs interface. Admittedly none of the controversial drivers in this Ok. > set do that currently either, but that's why I have asked Analog to confirm > what they are using them for. The point is that these devices are only > hardware monitoring to you because that is what you think they are for. > Some of them (not the one I forwarded initially) are general purpose ADC's > that have a temp sensor because the temperature can effect the calibration > of the outputs. > I did not refer to the chips with generic ADC sensors. The chips I referred to are AD7414/15, ADT75, ADT7310, ADT7408, and ADT7410, though I may have missed some. > We went through this in a lot of depth back when IIO first came about. > There is a boundary. We just need to pin down where it is. For the ambient temperature sensors on the other chips - did you consider adding hwmon device entries for those ? There may of course be reasons against doing that, but it may be an option. There are other drivers outside the hwmon directory which call hwmon_device_register(), so it is not a new concept. Thanks, Guenter -- 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
