Re: New home for DS1682 driver

[Wolfram Sang <w.sang-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:07:34PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:56:10 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:50:17AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > Hi Grant,
> > > 
> > > Driver ds1682 needs a new home, as drivers/i2c/chips will be gone soon.
> > > Do you have a preference for where it should go?
> > > 
> > > As the device includes an EEPROM, the driver could go in
> > > drivers/misc/eeprom, but OTOH the EEPROM in question is so small that
> > > this can hardly be considered the main feature of the driver. So maybe
> > > just drivers/misc?
> > 
> > I would much prefer drivers/misc.
> 
> OK, fine with me. Will you send a patch?

Will do if you want one. My idea was to wait for IIO becoming mainline and then
take care of both.

> For tsl2550, the plan is indeed to wait for iio to become mainline. Or
> the alternative ALS subsystem. I hope we won't have to wait too long.

Good you mentioned ALS; I forgot about it. I am afraid it will still take a
while for IIO, but moving drivers twice is also ugly :(

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