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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:20:39 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@gmail.com>
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CC: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] LIS3LV02D I2C driver
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?ric Piel wrote:
> Op 07-10-09 18:31, Jonathan Cameron schreef:
>   
>> Just a quick heads up wrt overlapping work.
>>
>> For the i2c support Kalhan Trisal has been posting patches for i2c
>> support for this
>> driver to the lm-sensors list for some time and the latest version of that
>> set is also pretty clean.
>>     
> You mean this post, right?
> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009-August/026505.html
> "Accelerometer driver for STMicroeletronics-LIS331DL-three-axis-digital"
> Thanks for the heads up, I had never heard of this driver before.
>   
I think that was the original post. (sorry should have added references!)

> Well, it's for the LIS331DL, not the LIS3LV02DL (12 bits) or the
> LIS302DL (8 bits) (both supported by lis3lv02d driver). That said,
> according to the specs, it seems to be _very_ similar to the LIS302DL,
> they even report the same "who_am_i" value. Just some special features
> are different (free fall detection for instance).
>   
Yes, that's why he was advised to combine it with your driver leading
via about 3 revisions
to
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009-October/026840.html
(removed a few pointless headers from previous version
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009-September/026706.html
.)


which at first glance is pretty much the same as Samu's driver.
(hence real issue with overlapping work).

I do wonder if it is worth adding a mailing list entry to the driver
MAINTAINERS
entry (unless lm-sensors is where you do want anything relevant to be
discussed?).
Problem here is this evolved in a thread not initially related to your
driver and hence I guess no one noticed you weren't cc'd when it became
relevant.

Jonathan

p.s. Kalhan, btw, just noticed a typo in the patch message :
Macroelectronics->Microelectronics.
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