Re: Driver Merge Questions

[Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@verdurent.com>]

On 09 Nov 03, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Chris Hudson <chudson@kionix.com> [091103 06:48]:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I've never submitted any software to Linux before, but I've been
> > working on some new accelerometer drivers that should be ready for
> > review soon (pending company approval).  I've read lots of
> > documentation on patch and driver submissions, but I still have some
> > questions that I was hoping someone could help me find the answers
> > to.
> > 
> > 1- My drivers use i2c for hardware communications, miscdevice for
> > IOCTLs, and input_dev for data and interrupt status outputs.  Most
> > of the other accelerometer drivers that I've looked at use similar
> > designs and are located in drivers/hwmon, but I just wanted to
> > confirm that this is the correct location currently.
> 
> Sounds correct.

Unfortunately it will probably get rejected in drivers/hwmon. The maintainer,
Jean Delavare wants them out of hwmon[1]. It seems that everyone (for the
moment) is leaning towards a new subsystem called industrial IO
(drivers/staging/iio) for such drivers.

Please ask Jean before you do the work to make your driver behave like a hwmon
driver.

Regards,
Amit


[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/2/153
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