From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add STMicroelectronics LPS001WP pressure sensor device driver into misc
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:46:25 +0100
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On Monday 14 March 2011 20:19:20 Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> The big issue raised last time around is that this is not a conventional human
> input device.  Hence Dmitry isn't going to take it into input.  That doesn't
> just mean that you have to move it's physical location; it also means you have
> to not use the input interfaces at all.

How about making this a hwmon driver instead?
There are already a number of temperature sensor drivers in
driver/hwmon/, I think it would fit in well there.

This would mean moving it to the other directory,
registering it to the common hwmon api (hwmon_device_register)
and rewriting the user API to blend in with the other
hwmon drivers.

	Arnd
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