On 08/16/11 00:22, Jonathan Kunkee wrote: >>> Should the HMC6352 digital compass driver be moved [...]? >> >> No - that would be a regression .. but read on > >>> [...] they should almost always land in IIO land. >> >> IIO is a staging project that may never go anywhere - some of us are >> using magnetometers in product so this alone isn't an answer that works >> right now. > > In my reading I failed to catch the how transient 'staging' is--I'll > keep it mind, as I'm hoping my driver will not be so transient. > >>> I would be willing to work on the change as I want to submit a similar >>> driver for the HMC6343 magnetometer/accelerometer as well. >> >> It would be great if it got added into the IIO subystem *as well*, and in >> time when and if IIO goes out of staging it would then eventually replace >> the existing drivers. > > This would then necessitate maintaining both chunks of code, so I think > for now I will develop my module in drivers/misc. After it has stabilized, > I can add both modules to IIO as well with this in mind. > Certainly a valid option right now. Moving things over tends to be straight forward anyway. IIO is hoping to make first steps out of staging shortly, but it will be a good while before anywhere near everything moves out into the main tree (lots of code and some of it is probably going to be controversial!) 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
