From: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Cameron <kernel@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>,
Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:29:45 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <014201cb0231$f68119a0$LocalHost@wipblrx0099946> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100601135430.9c8c28df.akpm@linux-foundation.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Jonathan Cameron" <kernel@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk>
Cc: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>;
<linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>; "Daniel Mack" <daniel@caiaq.de>; "Jonathan
Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>; "Wolfram Sang" <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver
> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:39:10 +0100
> Jonathan Cameron <kernel@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > It would be most useful if the changelog were to fully describe the
>> > proposed kernel<->userspace interface. That's the most important part
>> > of the driver, because it's the only part we can never change.
>> >
>> > There is a desultory effort to maintain sysfs API descriptions under
>> > Documentation/ABI/. I'd have thought that it would be appropriate to
>> > document this driver's ABI in there.
>> Agreed, but we get back to the debate of what we should standardise on.
>
> I'd suggest standardising on one of the existing drivers. That way we
> have two compliant drivers and only need to change (n-2) others. If we
> pick some new standard then we need to change (n) drivers.
>
Currently this driver follows the same sysfs convention as supported
by isl29003.c in drivers/misc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-02 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-24 11:04 [PATCH V2] misc : ROHM BH1780GLI Ambient light sensor Driver Hemanth V
2010-06-01 20:12 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-01 20:27 ` Daniel Mack
2010-06-01 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-01 20:45 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-06-01 20:39 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-06-01 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-01 21:39 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-06-02 8:59 ` Hemanth V [this message]
2010-06-02 13:05 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <39216.10.24.255.17.1274699066.squirrel@dbdmail.itg.ti.com>
2010-05-26 8:30 ` Hemanth V
2010-05-26 9:39 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-05-26 11:12 ` Hemanth V
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