Re: [PATCH] Asus T300CHI.

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On 20/09/15 23:42, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 20:08 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 19/09/15 20:03, Mike Mestnik wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Daniel Baluta <
>>> daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Mike Mestnik <
>>>> cheako@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>   I'm looking to know the result of adding ACPI support for a
>>>>> new
>>>>> tablet, the existing support shouldn't work because of a
>>>>> misplaced
>>>>> __init that causes the function to be removed prior to being
>>>>> called.
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure about this? It seems that the existing support
>>>> doesn't work
>>>> because you have different product ids.
>>>>
>>> The driver worked much better prior to me adding the product ids. 
>>>  The
>>> sensors were exposed to sysfs and all the data they collected
>>> seemed
>>> correct to me.  The big issue is that there is no software, even
>>> iio-sensor-proxy didn't know how to access the data.
>> Cc'd Bastien Nocera.
> 
> iio-sensor-proxy not finding the sensor, and with it working otherwise,
> would be an iio-sensor-proxy bug. I have one of those already for the
> accelerometer in the WinBook TW100 that I haven't had time to root down
> though. See:
> https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/issues/39
> 
> The main problem being that sensor types are already hard to detect,
> and the iio subsystem doesn't make it any easier to check whether
> there's buffered output available, or the application needs to poll.
> 
> If anyone wants to fix that in the kernel, that would certainly make my
> life easier.
> 
Suggestions for improvements welcome, but take into account that I for
one am unconvinced that a bit of parsing for presence of files is 
bad enough to demand another ABI to read them same things.

Jonathan
> Cheers
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