Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] iio: derive the mounting matrix from ACPI _PLD objects

[sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>]

Hi

On 04/27/2015 08:54 AM, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
> <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Since Acpi framework already exports this info to user space, Why not do
>> this derivation in user space code ? Why do we need new ABI, if the same
>> can be derived from existing one.
>>
> The ABI was added in the previous patch so that we can present the
> sensor orientation information to userspace even in the case of device
> tree.
If the main reason for implementing a new ABI is to support DT 
platforms, Why not implement a version of _PLD for device tree ? Don't 
you think it would be much better than adding a new ABI to export 
redundant information ?

Also the location information of the device is not just specific to iio 
drivers. You should consider that we would have similar requirements for 
devices implemented as input or platform drivers.
>
> The purpose of this patch is to provide a consistent ABI to userspace,
> i.e. to avoid doing one thing in the ACPI case and another thing in
> the case of device tree.
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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
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