Re: [RFC PATCH 17/17] input: RMI4 F54 analog data reporting

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Aug 27 2012 - 19:01:46 EST


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Christopher Heiny <cheiny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Verbose commit message.

> Signed-off-by: Christopher Heiny <cheiny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> +#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/rmi.h>
> +#include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/version.h>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>

This is not using the existing in-kernel framework for ADC (which I think is
what you're doing), in this case use the IIO subsystem so consult
drivers/iio/adc and be inspired.

Just exposing a set of weird sysfs files to userspace is not proper.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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