Hi, > Am 19.06.2016 um 20:33 schrieb Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > The goal of the original exercise to enable the driver for my > Dragonboard expanded when I found the *second* driver for this > sensor in drivers/misc/bmp085. > > So I wrote a patch series to bring the features of the IIO driver > on par with the misc driver, and beyond it: > > - The first patch set stuff augmenting DT bindings and adding > regulators and a reset GPIO. > > - Split transport from core driver (separate I2C module) > > - Added SPI support (which I cannot test, grateful for any help, > but pretty sure it works). > > - Support for the BMP085 EOC interrupt mechanism rather than > waiting for the conversion to happen. > > - Do not re-read calibration data all the time, also toss the > calibration into the entropy pool. > > After this I think the misc driver can be replaced with this > driver, but I'd love to hear from the maintainers of that driver > if I've missed something. One of the patches adds all the authors > of the misc driver listed there as I can clearly see code was > copied into this driver at several points. > > The only thing missing from the misc driver is the sysfs > interface. If there is real userspace out there using it, we > can implement a compatibility sysfs ABI. But then I'd like > to know what userspace it is, so I can test it. I will test on GTA04 as soon as I find a little time for it. We use the sysfs only for debugging and this can also be done through iio. So AFAIK there will be no functionality missing. BR, Nikolaus -- 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
