From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfram Sang Subject: Re: New home for DS1682 driver Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:25:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20091007102557.GG3177@pengutronix.de> References: <20091007115017.6941faa7@hyperion.delvare> <20091007095610.GF3177@pengutronix.de> <20091007120734.31a41f33@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rnP2AJ7yb1j09OW/" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091007120734.31a41f33-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: Grant Likely , Linux I2C List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org --rnP2AJ7yb1j09OW/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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, > > >=20 > > > Driver ds1682 needs a new home, as drivers/i2c/chips will be gone soo= n. > > > Do you have a preference for where it should go? > > >=20 > > > 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? > >=20 > > I would much prefer drivers/misc. >=20 > 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 :( --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | --rnP2AJ7yb1j09OW/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrMbLUACgkQD27XaX1/VRvVpQCeOoqELVj/1F3BKxEtP5zcvvRk vFgAn1+d5A883JQpYN/pt67ABoHojX07 =UQx+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rnP2AJ7yb1j09OW/--