On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 06:30:49PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 30/03/16 09:34, Linus Walleij wrote: > > >> I want to phase out the old misc driver, but don't know how that > >> should properly be handled. The driver has an old (totally > >> undocumented) sysfs ABI for raw measurements, should I add > >> this as backward-compatibility and symlink the device to the old > >> location? > > > > Good question. I guess we unfortunately do need to jump through the hoops as > > who knows what userspace code there is out there using that interface. > > At least it is small! > > The maintainer Hemanth seems to have disappeared. > > Let's ask some of the OMAP and ex-OMAP people, I think they know > or know who knows... > > Tony, Peter, Paul: drivers/misc/bh1780gli.c has a funky sysfs ABI. > It is only used in arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4-sdp.dts as far as I can > tell. What device is this, and more importantly, who is running it > and with what userspace? I'm happy to go and patch that userspace > if I can just get a pointer to whoever is developing it. Sailfish? Sailfish has never used OMAP4 afaik. OMAP4 sdp is a TI dev board, so maybe someone from TI knows what this is for? Peter. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
