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Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:36:24 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/18] Introduce the Counter subsystem
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On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 03:25:50PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue,  2 Apr 2019 15:30:35 +0900
> William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Changes in v10:
> >   - Fix minor typographical errors in documentation
> >   - Merge the FlexTimer Module Quadrature decoder counter driver patches
> > 
> > This revision is functionally identical to the last; changes in this
> > version were made to fix minor typos in the documentation files and also
> > to pull in the new FTM quadrature decoder counter driver.
> > 
> > The Generic Counter API has been and is still in a feature freeze until
> > it is merged into the mainline. The following features will be
> > investigated after the merge: interrupt support for counter devices, and
> > a character device interface for low-latency applications.
> 
> Hi William / al,
> 
> So the question is how to move this forwards?  I'm happy with how it turned
> out and the existing drivers we had in IIO are a lot cleaner under
> the counter subsystem (other than the backwards compatibility for those that
> ever existed in IIO).  For those  not following closely the situation is:

I've now sucked this into my staging-testing branch and if 0-day is fine
with it, I'll merge it to staging-next in a day or so.  This way you can
build on it for any iio drivers that might be coming.

I do have reservations about that one sysfs file that is multi-line, and
I think it will come to bite you in the end over time, so I reserve the
right to say "I told you so" when that happens...

But, I don't have a better answer for it now, so don't really worry
about it :)

thanks,

greg k-h