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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] iio: Add PAT9125 optical tracker sensor
To:     Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
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Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:06:56 +0200
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Hi Peter,

On 4/23/19 13:33, Peter Meerwald-Stadler wrote:
>
> how is this thing different from a mouse device?

I developed this driver to detect the board movement which can't be 
detected by accelerometer (very slow motion). I admit this use case can 
be handled by an input, and I'm agree with you, PAT9125 driver could be 
an input. But this chip is able to track different kind of motion (flat 
and rotation), and additionally have an interrupt GPIO, so using it like 
input limit the driver potential. This chip is designed to work in 
industrial measurement or embedded systems, and the IIO API match with 
these environments, so IIO is the best way to exploit the entire 
potential of this chip.

As I understand (from 
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/input/event-codes.html#mice ), 
mouse driver must report values when the device move. This feature 
souldn't be mandatory for an optical tracker driver, specially for cases 
where user prefers to use buffer or poll only when he need data.

All other comments will be fixed in V3.

Regards,

Alexandre