On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:19:18PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:00:29PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > The need for an industrialio subsystem was discussed in > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/135 > > The name is really bad, this sounds like something for doing large > scale industrial process control. Well, it says "Industrial I/O". To me, this means it handles I/O devices typically found in industrial applications. > > > Firstly thanks to all the people who have contributed to the discussion > > of this in the past. > > > > In brief the intention is provide a kernel subsystem directed towards the > > handling on sensors (and later related output devices) such as ADC's, > > accelerometers and many others. > > We've already got an perfectly good hwmon framework, do we really need > to do this again? hwmon is designed for slow I/O. It won't handle an ADC that does a few megasamples/sec. Thanks, Hans
