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Date:   Tue, 03 May 2022 13:50:39 +0500
From:   Ruslan Zalata <rz@fabmicro.ru>
To:     Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (sun4i-lradc) Add driver for LRADC found on
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Hi Maxime,

> I guess a better path forward would be to either register an hwmon
> device in the original driver, or convert that driver to iio and use
> iio-hwmon.

My first idea was to add hwmon to sun4i-lradc-keys.c driver. But soon as 
I began hacking the driver I quickly realized that it would be a mess 
since keyboard and hwmon belong to two different subsystems. Besides we 
would need to invent a way to control which way the driver works (new 
bindings?). So I decided that a new independent small driver would be a 
better solution.

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Ruslan.

Fabmicro, LLC.