Re: Removing ADS1015 driver from hwmon subsystem

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 18:13:27 -0700
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> there are currently two drivers for ADS1015 in the linux kernel:
> 
> drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads1015.c
> drivers/hwmon/ads1015.c
> 
> The driver in the iio subsystem provides more flexible support for
> the chip's capabilities. Even if the hwmon driver is removed,
> the iio->hwmon bridge can still be used and would provide the same
> information as before to the user. Existing devicetree entries
> for ads1015 both point to the iio driver. The platform include file
> is only included by the drivers, but not from any platform code.
> 
> With that in mind, keeping the hwmon driver around does not really
> add value. I suggest to remove it. Are there any objections or
> concerns ?

It is probably not worth the dance of creating a stub driver
in hwmon to bring up the iio->hwmon bridge but that might be
an option if anyone minds just dropping the ads1015 hwmon driver.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> 
> Thanks,
> Guenter