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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Donggeun Kim <dg77.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, jic23@cam.ac.kr,
	kyungmin.park@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] misc: Add driver for GP2AP002 proximity/ambient light sensor
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 01:31:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110909083134.GA21835@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315556546-7445-1-git-send-email-dg77.kim@samsung.com>

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 05:22:26PM +0900, Donggeun Kim wrote:
> SHARP GP2AP002 is proximity and ambient light sensor.
> This patch supports it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Donggeun Kim <dg77.kim@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
> ---
> Changes for v2
>   - changed to expose lux
>   - changed request_irq to request_threaded_irq function
>   - added sysfs_notify function call

Why?  You should never do that unless you _really_ know what you are
doing.


>   - cleaned up code
> 
>  Documentation/misc-devices/gp2ap002    |   44 +++
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig                   |   10 +
>  drivers/misc/Makefile                  |    1 +
>  drivers/misc/gp2ap002.c                |  488 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/platform_data/gp2ap002.h |   69 +++++


Shouldn't this be an iio driver instead of some random misc driver with
an undocumented sysfs file (hint, use Documentation/ABI for documenting
stuff...) ?


greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-09  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-09  8:22 [PATCH v2] misc: Add driver for GP2AP002 proximity/ambient light sensor Donggeun Kim
2011-09-09  8:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-09-09  9:16   ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-09 16:28     ` Greg KH

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