From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amit Kucheria Subject: Re: Driver Merge Questions Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:26:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20091109092621.GY1773@smtp.gmail.com> References: <4AF040D1.7020109@kionix.com> <20091103165821.GG8981@atomide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:54485 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754780AbZKIJ0c (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 04:26:32 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so3208711bwz.21 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:26:37 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091103165821.GG8981@atomide.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Chris Hudson , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" On 09 Nov 03, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Chris Hudson [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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amit Kucheria, Kernel Developer, Verdurent -------------------------------------------------------------------------