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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>]

On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 19:02 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> Am 2015-03-18 um 17:59 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> > On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 17:42 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> > > 
> > <snip>
> > > 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.

How can we get the hardware for somebody to use on their own 
laptops/embedded boards to implement this driver?