Re: [PATCH v2] add support for Freescale's MMA8653FC 10 bit accelerometer

Am 2015-03-18 um 17:59 schrieb Bastien Nocera:

On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 17:42 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:

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It could have gone to drivers/iio/accel if it would use an iio 
interface, which would make more sense, you are right, but I simply 
don't have the time to merge it in to iio.

It doesn't use an input interface either but I don't see a good 
place for an accelerometer that uses sysfs only.

It works well, is a relatively recent chip and a clean dirver. But 
this is all I can provide.

As a person who works on the user-space interaction of those with 
desktops [1]: Urgh.

I already have 3 (probably 4) types of accelerometers to contend with, 
I'm not fond of adding yet another type.

Is there any way to get this hardware working outside the SoCs it's 
designed for (say, a device with I2C like a Raspberry Pi), so that a 
kind soul could handle getting this using the right interfaces?

It works on basically any SoC and is in no way limited in this regard.
Sure, userspace has to expicitely support it and I hear you. Using the
iio interface would make more sense. I can only say I'd love to have the
time to move this driver over. I'm very sorry.

Cheers

[1]: https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy