Hi Greg, > > > > these two patches provide the etzkx device driver which supports > > > > the following accelerometers: > > > > > > Why isn't this a drivers/iio/accel/ driver instead of a misc driver? > > > Please make this an iio driver, then you will be using the correct > > > user/kernel api to talk to your device. > > > > I was thinking it may be an issue, but it's not iio because the > > time I developed the driver, iio was in the first staging period > > and mainly because the on the board I'm using I cannot update the > > Kernel to use the latest iio. > > > > I guess you don't like the promise "I can do it later" once the > > supplier sends me a development board (which is planned) :) > > Sure, I'll gladly accept "I can do it later" from anyone, as long as you > don't mind my, "I will merge it later" as well :) > > Sorry, I can't accept a driver now, that is known to going to be > changing the kernel/user api in the future. So please, rewrite it to > use IIO, that's what that interface / subsystem is there for.
What about submitting this accelerometer driver under staging even if it's still not iio and slowly put it in shape? Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
