Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:52:28 -0700, Chris Verges wrote: >>> Probably it's about time to put an end to this and kick all >>> accelerometer drivers out of drivers/hwmon. >> Hi Jean, >> >> This actually makes a lot of sense. The remaining question is, >> "To where do we kick them?" >> >> After reading Jonathan's iio.pdf, I'm all on-board with the >> adxl345 driver being placed in this new subsystem. However, >> IIO subsystem isn't released into the "vanilla" kernel yet. >> >> Until the IIO subsystem is finished and I can port the driver >> into it, what's the appropriate place for the adxl345 to >> reside? misc? A new directory? > > This is a very valid question, and the current situation probably is > the result of it not having a simple answer. > > We could create drivers/accelerometer and move the drivers there for > the time being. Or we can move them to drivers/misc until iio is > merged. Honestly, it would be great if iio could be finally merged, it > would help driver authors get their driver in good shape and in the > right place right away. But I know Jonathan is busy and I can't blame > him if things take time. Just for info, the latest version went to lkml about a minute ago. So now it's over to other people finding the time to review / comment. (and me to reply / implement their suggestions). Thanks, Jonathan
