----- Original Message -----
From: "Hemanth V" <[email protected]>
To: "Jonathan Cameron" <[email protected]>; "Dmitry Torokhov" <[email protected]>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Cameron" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.
>
>
>> Given the lack of further comment, I went ahead and implemented the above
>> naming
>> scheme for IIO. As the above discussion with Hemanth shows, there are
>> some corner cases
>> that will need futher thought in the future.
>>
>
> Jonathan, haven't seen many comments on this. Do u think the reason
> might be that these interfaces are hidden behind a HAL layer like in
> android and
> might not be a burning issue for many people.
>
Dmitry, could you let us know your thoughts on this too.
Would using a HAL layer be better compared to creating a standard
sysfs interface, as it seems to be the popular approach.
Thanks
Hemanth
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hemanth V" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <[email protected]>; "Dmitry Torokhov" <[email protected]>
>
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cameron" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.
>>
>>
>>> Given the lack of further comment, I went ahead and implemented the above
>>> naming
>>> scheme for IIO. As the above discussion with Hemanth shows, there are
>>> some corner cases
>>> that will need futher thought in the future.
>>>
>>
>> Jonathan, haven't seen many comments on this. Do u think the reason
>> might be that these interfaces are hidden behind a HAL layer like in
>> android and
>> might not be a burning issue for many people.
>>
>
> Dmitry, could you let us know your thoughts on this too.
> Would using a HAL layer be better compared to creating a standard
> sysfs interface, as it seems to be the popular approach.
What "HAL layer"? HAL the userspace project is now dead, so you should
standardize on a common sysfs or some other user/kernel api that the
kernel exports for the same type of devices to make it so that
everything works the same way.
thanks,
greg k-h
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hemanth V" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <[email protected]>; "Dmitry Torokhov" <[email protected]>
>
>
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cameron"
> ><[email protected]>
> >To: "Jonathan Cameron" <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:36 PM
> >Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.
> >
> >
> >>Given the lack of further comment, I went ahead and implemented
> >>the above naming
> >>scheme for IIO. As the above discussion with Hemanth shows,
> >>there are some corner cases
> >>that will need futher thought in the future.
> >>
> >
> >Jonathan, haven't seen many comments on this. Do u think the reason
> >might be that these interfaces are hidden behind a HAL layer like
> >in android and
> >might not be a burning issue for many people.
> >
>
> Dmitry, could you let us know your thoughts on this too.
> Would using a HAL layer be better compared to creating a standard
> sysfs interface, as it seems to be the popular approach.
>
Hemanth,
I do not really see the difference between sysfs interface and HAL
interface. They both abstract hardware details and bring them to common
denominator. If you guys can agree on HAL interface I trust sysfs should
be possible too ;)
BTW, the reason I do not comment on sysfs accelerometer infrastructure
is because it is not topic I am vested in, my time budget barely covers
pure input matters. So as long as there is something that is common and
shared between drivers I would be good with it; you guys need to decide
on details, please.
Thanks.
--
Dmitry