From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:58132 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751054Ab3CTXoE (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:44:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:44:05 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Jonathan Cameron Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, khali@linux-fr.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Move the IIO client driver for hwmon out of staging Message-ID: <20130320234405.GA29172@roeck-us.net> References: <1363818079-31470-1-git-send-email-jic23@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1363818079-31470-1-git-send-email-jic23@kernel.org> Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:21:19PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > This driver uses channel maps, defined either through device tree > or platform data, to create a hwmon driver which acts as a client > for the underlying IIO device channels. Thus a general purpose > IIO adc driver can be used to provide hardware monitoring using a subset > of its channels. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron > cc: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Guenter Roeck > > -- > The only non move changes here concern the description and changes to the > dependencies to IIO explicit and hwmon implicit. > > I'm proposing moving this into hwmon on the basis of placing drivers > based on what they provide rather than what their underlying hardware > is. > That is what I would suggest as well. I assume you will take this through the iio tree, as it depends on my previous patch, correct ? Thanks, Guenter From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:44:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Move the IIO client driver for hwmon out of staging Message-Id: <20130320234405.GA29172@roeck-us.net> List-Id: References: <1363818079-31470-1-git-send-email-jic23@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1363818079-31470-1-git-send-email-jic23@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jonathan Cameron Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, khali@linux-fr.org On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:21:19PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > This driver uses channel maps, defined either through device tree > or platform data, to create a hwmon driver which acts as a client > for the underlying IIO device channels. Thus a general purpose > IIO adc driver can be used to provide hardware monitoring using a subset > of its channels. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron > cc: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Guenter Roeck > > -- > The only non move changes here concern the description and changes to the > dependencies to IIO explicit and hwmon implicit. > > I'm proposing moving this into hwmon on the basis of placing drivers > based on what they provide rather than what their underlying hardware > is. > That is what I would suggest as well. I assume you will take this through the iio tree, as it depends on my previous patch, correct ? Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors