Re: [PATCH 0/2] etzkx accelerometer support

From: Andi Shyti
Date: Mon Jun 17 2013 - 04:26:31 EST


> > > > these two patches provide the etzkx device driver which supports
> > > > the following accelerometers:
> > > >
> > > > - Kionix kxcnl
> > > > - Kionix kxtnk
> > > > - ST lisn3dsh
> > > >
> > > > Support for ST lis3dsh accelerometer is still in progress.
> > > >
> > > > The etzkx accelerometers are a kind of devices that are able to
> > > > do gesture recognition directly on the device. It uses two slots
> > > > of 16 steps (bytes) each for loading algorithms which perform
> > > > gesture recognition.
> > > >
> > > > The second patch contains the documentation of the device driver.
> > > >
> > > > On http://www.etezian.org/etzkx/etzkx/ is possible to find more
> > > > informations about the accelerometer.
> > >
> > > Why isn't this a drivers/iio/accel/ driver instead of a misc driver?
> > > Please make this an iio driver, then you will be using the correct
> > > user/kernel api to talk to your device.
> >
> > I was thinking it may be an issue, but it's not iio because the
> > time I developed the driver, iio was in the first staging period
> > and mainly because the on the board I'm using I cannot update the
> > Kernel to use the latest iio.
> >
> > I guess you don't like the promise "I can do it later" once the
> > supplier sends me a development board (which is planned) :)
>
> Sure, I'll gladly accept "I can do it later" from anyone, as long as you
> don't mind my, "I will merge it later" as well :)
>
> Sorry, I can't accept a driver now, that is known to going to be
> changing the kernel/user api in the future. So please, rewrite it to
> use IIO, that's what that interface / subsystem is there for.

Fair enough! Let's accept the "I'll do it later" from each other :)

Then... see you later and thanks,
Andi
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