Hello, thank you for your comments! > I'd not be anti an implementation of this though. It would sit as an > additional buffer implementation (similar to that use for the input > bridge - see below) and do simple calculations / comparisons - then > providing iio events when conditions are passed etc. Could be rather > cute actually ;) Tricky bit would be delinking it as far as possible > from the individual drivers. Could do it completely separately... (i.e. > have another iio device that is a child of the original and has only > events rather than raw access etc). agree; there might be three conceptual layers: (1) sensor data acquisition (2) data aggregation / processing / thresholding (3) (input) event generation I can see iio fulfill (1); (2) might be difficult to do in a sensor-independant way; (3) should be easy > > is there some advise where proximity driver support might best fit? > Whilst the application you have (and some devices) are used simply as buttons > this isn't always the case and as you are considering writing a driver that > others will hopefully use, keep that in mind. If you don't mind me > asking what device are you using? I'm looking at two different sensors (for different purposes); a VCNL4000 and a Si1143: the former is simplistic (ALS+proximity, no interrupt, has to be polled), the latter should allow fancy HCI and ALS (i.e. three IR leds that should allow to estimate the positition/direction of a nearby object -- so one should be able to distinguish contactless swipe gestures etc.) both are I2C and I'm using a beagleboard as dev platform > best choice. If it will be used for things other than human input, then IIO > is worth considering. Note we have work in progress to bridge from iio > devices across to input, but the gaping hole there at the moment is this doesn't > include threshold type events (what we consider events in IIO doesn't include normal > data flow). Its on the todo list (in my head :) can you please point me to that work on bridging iio and input layer? thank you for your guideline! 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
