Re: New home for DS1682 driver

Jean Delvare
2009-10-07T10:07:34Z

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:56:10 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:50:17AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Grant,
> >
> > Driver ds1682 needs a new home, as drivers/i2c/chips will be gone soon.
> > Do you have a preference for where it should go?
> >
> > As the device includes an EEPROM, the driver could go in
> > drivers/misc/eeprom, but OTOH the EEPROM in question is so small that
> > this can hardly be considered the main feature of the driver. So maybe
> > just drivers/misc?
>
> I would much prefer drivers/misc.

OK, fine with me. Will you send a patch?

> What about tsl2550.c? I thought the plan back
> then was to wait for IIO becoming mainline? Or shall we also put it to
> drivers/misc until then?

For tsl2550, the plan is indeed to wait for iio to become mainline. Or
the alternative ALS subsystem. I hope we won't have to wait too long.

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Jean Delvare