From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Hudson Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [RFC PATCH 1/3] hwmon:driver support for Kionix kxte9 accelerometer Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:54:29 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF9E115.9090603@kionix.com> References: <1257877729-25647-1-git-send-email-chudson@kionix.com> <20091110193539.7e1392f3@hyperion.delvare> <4AF9B5E3.1060902@kionix.com> <4AF9B847.3070008@cam.ac.uk> <4AF9CDF2.2070003@kionix.com> <20091110223907.1f47b07f@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from barracuda.kionix.com ([205.232.90.213]:34186 "EHLO mail.kionix.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754443AbZKJVy2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:54:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091110223907.1f47b07f@hyperion.delvare> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: Jonathan Cameron , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Jean Delvare wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:32:50 -0500, Chris Hudson wrote: > >> Thank you for your insight Jonathan. The driver was originally written >> for the 2.6.29 omap-android kernel to facilitate integration of the >> kxte9 into customer projects. Unfortunately, it seems that things in >> the kernel have changed since then, but I'm not sure how much we can >> change without sacrificing compatibility with the Android sensor API. >> Is there a different place where this driver could go without requiring >> significant redesign? >> > > I don't think a move implies a redesign. You could put exactly the same > driver under drivers/misc, drivers/accel, drivers/input or what do I > know. I don't want it in drivers/hwmon, but I don't care about anything > else. > > Thank you Jean; I will resubmit the driver for drivers/input/misc if that sounds appropriate. On another note, I accidentally left some debug code in place that I will be removing (unless it seems appropriate to leave that in for intermediate testing). Any thoughts on this?