On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:43:46 +0200, ?ric Piel wrote: > 05-06-08 01:05, Pavel Machek wrote/a ?crit: > >> So my advice is that you don't wait for a review from the hwmon people, > >> because apparently we don't have much interest in this type of device, > >> so you'll be waiting forever. You're much better adding the mdps driver > >> to drivers/misc through Andrew Morton, at least until someone takes > >> care of creating a subsystem for this type of devices and move all > >> existing drivers there. > > > > Just create drivers/accel ... accelerometers are quite common these > > days. Going to drivers/misc is okay, too, I guess -- moves are easy > > with git ;-). > > Yes, why not do one little step to the correct direction now and create > drivers/accel, it will likely be the chosen name anyway! That will not > yet be a "real" subsystem, just a place to put all the related drivers > already present together. Well, I would expect all these accelerometer drivers to have a common, standardized interface, so this should most probably become a real subsystem in the long run. > Anyone against this idea? I am in favor of it. -- Jean Delvare
