Hi Peter, Can you explain more about how your proximity device is? How does it report through gpio / irq etc ? Thanks, Shubhro On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering how to support proximity sensors; goal is to trigger some > application event when an object comes close (in that sense, the proximity > sensor is used like a button) > > there are several places in the kernel doing similar things: > e.g. input/misc/gp2ap0002a00f.c > e.g. drivers/misc/bh1770glc.c > e.g. drivers/staging/iio/isl29018.c > > iio seems to be most active and has IIO_PROXIMITY, but I do not see how > the application is easily notified: iio collects merely collects the > sensor data > > drivers in misc just create some custom sysfs interface > > input/misc has just one driver dealing with proximity > > is there some advise where proximity driver support might best fit? > > thanks, regards, p. > > -- > > Peter Meerwald > +43-664-2444418 (mobile) > -- > 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 -- 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
