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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Ambient Light sensor for Intersil-ISL29020 device
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:51:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090902145136.2d822a57@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090811185416.GB32002@intel.com>

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:22:29 +0530, Trisal, Kalhan wrote:
> This driver used Hwmon interface ,

No, it doesn't. It registers as a hwmon device but it doesn't implement
_any_ feature listed in Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. Which can
be easily explained: your device is not a hardware monitoring device.

> I don't find the ils29003 registering with hwmon. I still believe
> this should be part of hwmon group.

No, it shouldn't. hwmon is for hardware monitoring. Other sensor types
must find a different home.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-11  8:13 [lm-sensors] Ambient Light sensor for Intersil-ISL29020 device Kalhan Trisal
2009-08-11 13:29 ` Cory T. Tusar
2009-08-13 10:56 ` Trisal, Kalhan
2009-09-02 12:51 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2009-09-02 15:26 ` Jonathan Cameron
2009-09-02 20:07 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-03  3:35 ` Zhang Rui
2009-09-03 10:51 ` Jean Delvare
2009-09-03 12:50 ` Jonathan Cameron

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