Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752302Ab0DOKNH (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:13:07 -0400 Received: from ppsw-33.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.133]:57344 "EHLO ppsw-33.csi.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751891Ab0DOKNE (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:13:04 -0400 X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-SpamDetails: not scanned X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Message-ID: <4BC6E757.3030204@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:15:51 +0100 From: Jonathan Cameron User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100109 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Mack CC: Alan Cox , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, khali@linux-fr.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] isl29020: ambient light sensor References: <20100414124913.23181.75903.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100414125147.23181.5817.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100414224542.GX30807@buzzloop.caiaq.de> <20100414233554.3f020155@linux.intel.com> <20100415062023.GG30801@buzzloop.caiaq.de> In-Reply-To: <20100415062023.GG30801@buzzloop.caiaq.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1357 Lines: 31 On 04/15/10 07:20, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:35:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >>> Would it be possible to make the existing driver for the ISL29003 >>> support the ISL29020 as well? >> >> I dug the manuals out for these to take a look - the answer is they are >> quite different chips. > > Hmm, sad :( > > However, the driver should be applied to the ALS tree after all, unless > Jonathan plans to drop the whole thing, which I doubt. Sadly ALS is dead. Linus made it pretty clear he wasn't going to pull it. Hence currently either ALS drivers are going into misc (and can be moved elsewhere later), or we are taking them into IIO (and hence staging) where they fit fine and we can sort out a bridge to input to answer Linus' issue with the original patch set. In the thread following Alan's repost (having moved this driver to misc) Greg just pointed out the sysfs interface needed documenting, and I've suggested that we sort out the naming properly (in a way compliant with hwmon and the new IIO abi. 90% of what the ALS subsystem contributed was defining the ABI anyway! Jonathan -- 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/