Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755954Ab0FBJBC (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:01:02 -0400 Received: from arroyo.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.40]:58767 "EHLO arroyo.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754470Ab0FBJA7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:00:59 -0400 Message-ID: <014201cb0231$f68119a0$LocalHost@wipblrx0099946> From: "Hemanth V" To: "Andrew Morton" , "Jonathan Cameron" Cc: , , "Daniel Mack" , "Jonathan Cameron" , "Wolfram Sang" References: <39216.10.24.255.17.1274699065.squirrel@dbdmail.itg.ti.com><20100601131244.7164b43c.akpm@linux-foundation.org><4C056FEE.3040107@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk> <20100601135430.9c8c28df.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:29:45 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3598 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1607 Lines: 36 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Morton" To: "Jonathan Cameron" Cc: "Hemanth V" ; ; ; "Daniel Mack" ; "Jonathan Cameron" ; "Wolfram Sang" Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:39:10 +0100 > Jonathan Cameron wrote: > >> > >> > It would be most useful if the changelog were to fully describe the >> > proposed kernel<->userspace interface. That's the most important part >> > of the driver, because it's the only part we can never change. >> > >> > There is a desultory effort to maintain sysfs API descriptions under >> > Documentation/ABI/. I'd have thought that it would be appropriate to >> > document this driver's ABI in there. >> Agreed, but we get back to the debate of what we should standardise on. > > I'd suggest standardising on one of the existing drivers. That way we > have two compliant drivers and only need to change (n-2) others. If we > pick some new standard then we need to change (n) drivers. > Currently this driver follows the same sysfs convention as supported by isl29003.c in drivers/misc. -- 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/