Re: misc: bh1770glc: move sysfs interace to Documentation/ABI

From: Aishwarya Pant
Date: Tue Jan 02 2018 - 12:25:33 EST


On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > In Documentation/misc-devices/bh1770glc.txt, there is a description of the sysfs
> > interface which could be moved to Documentation/ABI.
> >
> > Would such a change be useful?
>
> Not at the moment.
>
> > The ABI documentation format looks like the following:
> >
> > What: (the full sysfs path of the attribute)
> > Date: (date of creation)
> > KernelVersion: (kernel version it first showed up in)
> > Contact: (primary contact)
> > Description: (long description on usage)
> >
> > I am doing this in an exercise to move sysfs ABI interfaces (which are
> > documented) to their right place i.e. in Documentation/ABI along with the rest.
>
> The interface should probably be changed to iio one, to be consistent
> with other sensors such as Apds990x.
>
> If you have the hardware, help would be welcome.

Yes, makes sense for this driver to be with the iio light sensors. I don't have
the hardware for it. So, I won't move the sysfs interface to ABI.

Aishwarya

>
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