Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758654AbZKYK5C (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:57:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758592AbZKYK5A (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:57:00 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:46675 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758527AbZKYK45 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:56:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:56:49 +0200 From: Amit Kucheria To: Zhang Rui Cc: Jonathan Cameron , List Linux Kernel Subject: ALS subsystem (was Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: iio: tsl2563 ambient light sensor driver) Message-ID: <20091125105649.GJ16444@smtp.gmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Zhang Rui , Jonathan Cameron , List Linux Kernel References: <1257772468-4004-1-git-send-email-amit.kucheria@verdurent.com> <4AF81FE5.5080102@cam.ac.uk> <20091109142430.GZ1773@smtp.gmail.com> <4AF85ABB.7060406@cam.ac.uk> <1257843493.4469.25.camel@rzhang-dt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1257843493.4469.25.camel@rzhang-dt> X-URL: http://www.verdurent.com/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1982 Lines: 50 On 09 Nov 10, Zhang Rui wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 02:08 +0800, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > Amit Kucheria wrote: > > > On 09 Nov 09, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > >> Hi Amit, > > >> > > >> Normally I'd welcome this in IIO, except that all ambient light sensors are in the > > >> process of moving to the new ALS subsystem. There are still some issues to resolve > > >> in that subsystem (mainly to do with naming conventions) but hopefully we will > > >> get them sorted out shortly. > > > > > > Groan! :) > > You have my sympathies on this! Typical that the first other developer to put > > forward a patch for IIO picks the one type of device we are moving out. > > If you do have any comments on IIO as a result of using it please send them > > on. > > > Who will be the subsystem maintainer and is there already a public git > > > tree? > > No git tree as far as I know. Maintainer is Zhang Rui (Cc'd) > > Zhang, what are your plans wrt to that? I guess I can put one up with the current > > patches if it is helpful? We really need to sort out the naming issue as the one > > thing that people have come out against. > > > well. I'd prefer a generic name alsX with an extra "name"/"desc" file. > > > After that I'm guessing ping Andrew Morton to see if he is willing to handle the push > > to Linus? Or does Zhang want to try doing one directly? > > > I'll refresh the patch and send to Andrew. > Rui, Is there any progress on this? I haven't seen a patch refresh on LKML. I can help if you need any. Regards, Amit -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amit Kucheria, Kernel Developer, Verdurent ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/