From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Cameron Subject: Re: [Patch 0/4] IndustrialIO subsystem (ADCs, accelerometers etc) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:12:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4889B524.5010602@gmail.com> References: <488763AD.4050400@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML , spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, LM Sensors , Jean Delvare , Dmitry Torokhov , "Hans J. Koch" , hmh@hmh.eng.br, David Brownell , mgross@linux.intel.com, Ben Nizette , Anton Vorontsov To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-spi.vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2008-07-23 19:00, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > >> Dear All, >> >> The need for an industrialio subsystem was discussed in >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/135 >> >> Firstly thanks to all the people who have contributed to the discussion >> of this in the past. >> >> In brief the intention is provide a kernel subsystem directed towards the >> handling on sensors (and later related output devices) such as ADC's, >> accelerometers and many others. >> > > Could this be done using UIO instead? > No, this lot is directed towards devices that use serial buses such as i2c and SPI whereas UIO is, from my admittedly cursory knowledge, intended for devices which can have their control registers memory mapped into user space. Looks like I need to be a bit more specific in my descriptions. It's terrible but as all the sensors etc I work with are connected like this it never occurred to me to make it explicit in the description. -- Jonathan From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Cameron Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:12:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [Patch 0/4] IndustrialIO subsystem (ADCs, Message-Id: <4889B524.5010602@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <488763AD.4050400@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: LKML , spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, LM Sensors , Jean Delvare , Dmitry Torokhov , "Hans J. Koch" , hmh@hmh.eng.br, David Brownell , mgross@linux.intel.com, Ben Nizette , Anton Vorontsov Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2008-07-23 19:00, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > >> Dear All, >> >> The need for an industrialio subsystem was discussed in >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/135 >> >> Firstly thanks to all the people who have contributed to the discussion >> of this in the past. >> >> In brief the intention is provide a kernel subsystem directed towards the >> handling on sensors (and later related output devices) such as ADC's, >> accelerometers and many others. >> > > Could this be done using UIO instead? > No, this lot is directed towards devices that use serial buses such as i2c and SPI whereas UIO is, from my admittedly cursory knowledge, intended for devices which can have their control registers memory mapped into user space. Looks like I need to be a bit more specific in my descriptions. It's terrible but as all the sensors etc I work with are connected like this it never occurred to me to make it explicit in the description. -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors