Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752989Ab1CNU1s (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:27:48 -0400 Received: from imr4.ericy.com ([198.24.6.8]:36940 "EHLO imr4.ericy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751245Ab1CNU1q (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:27:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:27:17 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Jean Delvare CC: Jonathan Cameron , Arnd Bergmann , mems applications , "rdunlap@xenotime.net" , "carmine.iascone@st.com" , "matteo.dameno@st.com" , "rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add STMicroelectronics LPS001WP pressure sensor device driver into misc Message-ID: <20110314202717.GA16461@ericsson.com> References: <1300128906-1066-1-git-send-email-matteo.dameno@st.com> <4D7E6A38.7010801@cam.ac.uk> <201103142046.25393.arnd@arndb.de> <4D7E771B.1040804@cam.ac.uk> <20110314211809.29da8518@endymion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110314211809.29da8518@endymion.delvare> 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: 1657 Lines: 38 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 04:18:09PM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:14:19 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > On 03/14/11 19:46, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > 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. > > hwmon are fairly forceful about not taking things that aren't for monitoring > > hardware. Even the humidity sensors in there are still controversial. > > As it has been suggested I've cc'd Guenter and Jean just in case I'm wrong on > > this. > > Jonathan is correct. Pressure sensors are not hardware monitoring > devices, their drivers have nothing to do in drivers/hwmon. This is > something for drivers/misc or staging/iio. > Absolutely agree. Guenter > > > 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. > > -- > Jean Delvare -- 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/