Re: [PATCH] iio: hid: hid-sensor-accel-3d: Add second ACC sensor support

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On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 18:20 +0800, Song Hongyan wrote:
> As accelerometer sensor becomes more and more popular, there are more
> user scenarios have been developed, "Hinge" is a very important
> usecase
> which needs two accelerometer sensors to calculate the included angle
> of keyboard and screen.
> In this case, two accelerometer sensors will be exposed. Currently,
> IIO interface hasn't other way to distinguish two sensors with same
> sensor type, except sensor name. So a new sensor name "accel_2nd_3d"
> is added for secondary accelerometer sensor.
> 
> In HID level, connection type is a good common property to
> differentiate two sensors with same sensor type.

I've been told in the past not to rely on device names in iio-sensor-
proxy, and this would go against this advice.

As you have a "type" to export, why not export that instead?
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