Re: acpi-als taking over from hwmon for light sensor support?

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On mer., 2016-11-23 at 18:21 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I did some work on iio-sensor-proxy[1] those past couple of days, and
> tested it on a MacBook Pro.
> 
> Before that, I had written a (user-space) driver to access the hwmon
> driver's "light" value, so I was a bit surprised when I saw that iio-
> sensor-proxy was accessing the light sensor through acpi-als's IIO
> driver instead of through the hwmon driver.
> 
> I looked through the hwmon, iio and applesmc.c logs, and couldn't find
> any information about how the move from one to the other. Does anyone
> know?
> 
> I'm asking because the applesmc.c hwmon driver is the only one with
> support for the "light" property, and if that's not used anymore, I
> might as well remove that code now (or schedule to remove it).

Light sensors are out of scope of hwmon, they have nothing to do with
hardware monitoring.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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