Re: Driver Merge Questions

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

On 09 Nov 09, Chris Hudson wrote:
> Hello Amit,
> 
> Thank you for the information.
> 
> The driver is just about finished actually; I was going to do some
> final testing and pull and submit the patches today.  I read the
> lkml.org source and it definitely seems like things are in a state
> of limbo at the moment (well, as of a few months ago) with regard to
> sensor drivers.  So, should I submit the code as-is and work on
> changing it as necessary with the help of the community, or do I
> step back and modify for the iio subsystem before submission?
> Alternatively, since the code was originally written for the 2.6.29
> Android kernel, should I submit the current version of the driver to
> that branch first?  Please let me know.

Hi Chris,

No harm is submitting a patch for a hwmon-based driver against mainline
2.6.32-rc6 to LKML (cc the requisite maintainers). It might help get review on
obvious issues, if any. 

But be prepared to modify the driver to use IIO. I just modified a driver to
use IIO and isn't that hard - probably an afternoon's work.

Regards,
Amit
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Amit Kucheria,				 Kernel Developer, Verdurent
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