Re: [RFC] iio: accel: Add driver for the Analog Devices ADXL345 3-axis accelerometer

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Hi!

On 01/26/2017 09:33 AM, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Florian Vaussard
> <florian.vaussard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 01/25/2017 10:25 AM, Eva Rachel Retuya wrote:
>>> Add basic IIO support for the Analog Devices ADXL345 3-axis accelerometer.
>>> The datasheet can be found here:
>>> http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/ADXL345.pdf
>>>
>>
>> There is already a driver in the kernel for this accelerometer (under
>> drivers/input/misc/adxl34x*). Maybe it would be worth migrating the exiting
>> driver to IIO instead of duplicating the effort?
>>
>> Your driver appears to support only the I2C variant, whereas the existing driver
>> supports both I2C / SPI (hint: I have the SPI variant on a board :))
> 
> Hi Florian,
> 
> This is our intention, to migrate the ADXL34x input driver to adxl345
> IIO driver,
> supporting all the features the input driver is offering.
> 

Great to hear that!

> We sent this patch early for review in order to get a feeling of
> what IIO/input folks think about this device and if moving it to IIO
> is a good thing.
> 
> Glad that you have the SPI variant, perhaps you can help us with
> testing the patches :).
> 

I probably missed the RFC tag ;) Sure, I can test with SPI variant when your
driver integrates the SPI support. Please CC it to florian.vaussard@xxxxxxxxxx,
otherwise I may miss it.

Best,
Florian
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