Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:51:10 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andi Shyti <andi@etezian.org>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, rob@landley.net, oatilla@gmail.com, szsolt@gmail.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] etzkx accelerometer support
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:40:26PM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> these two patches provide the etzkx device driver which supports
> the following accelerometers:
> 
>  - Kionix kxcnl
>  - Kionix kxtnk
>  - ST lisn3dsh
> 
> Support for ST lis3dsh accelerometer is still in progress.
> 
> The etzkx accelerometers are a kind of devices that are able to
> do gesture recognition directly on the device. It uses two slots
> of 16 steps (bytes) each for loading algorithms which perform
> gesture recognition.
> 
> The second patch contains the documentation of the device driver.
> 
> On http://www.etezian.org/etzkx/etzkx/ is possible to find more
> informations about the accelerometer.

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.

thanks,

greg k-h
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