Re: [PATCH] bma023: Support for Bosch BMA023, BMA150 and SMB380 accelerometers

On 02/22/11 12:25, Alan Cox wrote:

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However, note that Dmitry has previously blocked merges of drivers into input
precisely because these sysfs interfaces haven't been defined cleanly (in that
case the relevant bits were just dropped from the driver in favour of platform
data). He wants to see something general across all such sensors whatever
subsystem they are actually in.

Ultimately there is a lot to be said for a common interface, but as you
yourself point out - there isn't actually anything for it to be common
with. In this case some of the user interface side is needed at runtime
so platform interfaces (or hiding ioctls in platform code to hide it from
you ;) ) doesn't help much.

It's up to Dmitry, it would be nice to have it upstream but if it ends up
only in Meego until IIO is stabilised and out of staging then thats less
ideal.

This device looks very much like one that will mainly (if not exclusively)
be used as an input device.  Hence I'd be keener to see it in input than IIO
even if IIO was already out of staging.  Still, intent is to share sysfs
interfaces in as many subsystems as possible, independent of where the
driver actually sits.