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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, guenter.roeck@ericsson.com,
	khali@linux-fr.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, arnd@arndb.de,
	linus.walleij@linaro.org, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com,
	thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, zdevai@gmail.com,
	w.sang@pengutronix.de, marek.vasut@gmail.com,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging:iio:core add in kernel interface mapping and getting IIO channels.
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:20:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209192054.GN3058@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120209191718.GA10999@kroah.com>

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On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:17:18AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 07:15:10PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This is nothing to do with init ordering, it's all about the two devices
> > finding each other at all.

> Ok, if that's all this is for, they why name it "iio in-kernel logic"?
> That made me believe that this is something that is needed if anyone who
> happens to want to use the iio interface needs it.

> If it's just "iio discovery" then call it that :)

I think that's all due to the overall goal of the patch series - the
original use case for IIO was purely for userspace users and what the
patch series is doing is adding the ability to use IIO devices from
within the kernel.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-29 11:46 [RFC PATCH 0/5 V5] IIO: in kernel pull interfaces Jonathan Cameron
2012-01-29 11:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] staging:iio:core add in kernel interface mapping and getting IIO channels Jonathan Cameron
2012-01-30 20:22   ` Mark Brown
2012-01-30 20:28     ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-02-01 19:58       ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-06 21:30         ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-02-09 18:10   ` Greg KH
2012-02-09 18:34     ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-02-09 18:57       ` Greg KH
2012-02-09 19:15         ` Mark Brown
2012-02-09 19:17           ` Greg KH
2012-02-09 19:20             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-02-09 21:20               ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-02-10  1:03                 ` Linus Walleij
2012-01-29 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] staging:iio: move iio data return types into types.h for use by inkern Jonathan Cameron
2012-01-29 11:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] staging:iio::hwmon interface client driver Jonathan Cameron
2012-01-29 11:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] staging:iio:Documentation in kernel pull description Jonathan Cameron
2012-01-29 11:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] stargate2: example of map configuration for iio to hwmon example Jonathan Cameron
2012-01-30 19:33   ` Mark Brown
2012-01-30 20:26     ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-01-30 21:22       ` Mark Brown
2012-01-30 21:48         ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-01-31  8:39         ` Linus Walleij
2012-01-31 11:09           ` Mark Brown
2012-01-30 19:28 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5 V5] IIO: in kernel pull interfaces Linus Walleij

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