From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: acpi-als taking over from hwmon for light sensor support?
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:38:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1479922686.5115.2.camel@chaos.suse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479921689.16940.9.camel@hadess.net>
On mer., 2016-11-23 at 18:21 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I did some work on iio-sensor-proxy[1] those past couple of days, and
> tested it on a MacBook Pro.
>
> Before that, I had written a (user-space) driver to access the hwmon
> driver's "light" value, so I was a bit surprised when I saw that iio-
> sensor-proxy was accessing the light sensor through acpi-als's IIO
> driver instead of through the hwmon driver.
>
> I looked through the hwmon, iio and applesmc.c logs, and couldn't find
> any information about how the move from one to the other. Does anyone
> know?
>
> I'm asking because the applesmc.c hwmon driver is the only one with
> support for the "light" property, and if that's not used anymore, I
> might as well remove that code now (or schedule to remove it).
Light sensors are out of scope of hwmon, they have nothing to do with
hardware monitoring.
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-23 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 17:21 acpi-als taking over from hwmon for light sensor support? Bastien Nocera
2016-11-23 17:38 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2016-11-23 21:07 ` Bastien Nocera
2016-11-23 21:32 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-11-24 2:18 ` Bastien Nocera
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