On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:19:02 -0700, Chris Verges wrote: > > What are you actually doing with it? If you aren't doing hardware > > monitoring then I would expect you aren't going to receive a > > favourable response on here. > > The ADXL345 is a 3D accelerometer. It's very similar to the following > chips already in the HWMON section of the kernel: > > - SENSORS_LIS3LV02D > - SENSORS_APPLESMC > > The driver provides 3D axis data when the user polls the chip via the > sysfsinterface. A few accelerometer drivers were originally added to drivers/hwmon because the chips also included some hwmon features (e.g. temperature sensor.) Now every new accelerometer driver gets dropped in drivers/hwmon "because there are other accelerometer drivers there". The LIS3LV02D driver is a perfect example of this... the device is not even registered as a hwmon driver! This driver definitely doesn't belong there. Probably it's about time to put an end to this and kick all accelerometer drivers out of drivers/hwmon. -- Jean Delvare
