On 09 Nov 03, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Chris Hudson <chudson@xxxxxxxxxx> [091103 06:48]: > > Hello all, > > > > I've never submitted any software to Linux before, but I've been > > working on some new accelerometer drivers that should be ready for > > review soon (pending company approval). I've read lots of > > documentation on patch and driver submissions, but I still have some > > questions that I was hoping someone could help me find the answers > > to. > > > > 1- My drivers use i2c for hardware communications, miscdevice for > > IOCTLs, and input_dev for data and interrupt status outputs. Most > > of the other accelerometer drivers that I've looked at use similar > > designs and are located in drivers/hwmon, but I just wanted to > > confirm that this is the correct location currently. > > Sounds correct. Unfortunately it will probably get rejected in drivers/hwmon. The maintainer, Jean Delavare wants them out of hwmon[1]. It seems that everyone (for the moment) is leaning towards a new subsystem called industrial IO (drivers/staging/iio) for such drivers. Please ask Jean before you do the work to make your driver behave like a hwmon driver. Regards, Amit [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/2/153 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amit Kucheria, Kernel Developer, Verdurent ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
