From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Stefan Roese <ml@stefan-roese.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Correct location for ADC/DAC drivers
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 10:24:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070504082434.GA22585@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705011435.45046.ml@stefan-roese.de>
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:35:44PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> I'm in the stage of integrating some ADC and DAC drivers for the AMCC
> 405EZ PPC and looking for the correct location to place these drivers
> in the Linux source tree. The drivers are basically character-drivers,
> so my first thought is to put them in "drivers/char/adc/foo.c" or
> "drivers/char/adc_foo.c". Is this a good solution?
>
> Any suggestions welcome (could be that I missed an already existing
> example).
>
> BTW: I am aware of the hwmon subsystem, but I don't think it fits my
> needs in this case.
Could you elaborate the requirements a bit more? ADC is not ADC, because
slow i2c ADCs which measure a temperature every five minutes have other
requirements than multi-megabyte-per-second-dma-driven ADCs.
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-04 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 12:35 Correct location for ADC/DAC drivers Stefan Roese
2007-05-01 21:03 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-05-02 10:25 ` Stefan Roese
2007-05-02 13:35 ` Robert Schwebel
2007-05-02 19:11 ` Russell King
2007-05-04 6:11 ` Stefan Roese
2007-05-04 7:44 ` Russell King
2007-05-04 8:24 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
2007-05-04 8:54 ` Stefan Roese
2007-05-04 18:21 ` Robin Getz
2007-05-04 20:52 ` Robert Schwebel
2007-05-04 22:16 ` Robin Getz
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2007-05-06 12:19 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-05-06 13:20 ` Paul Sokolovsky
2007-05-06 16:01 ` Robert Schwebel
2007-05-06 19:33 ` Robin Getz
2007-05-06 20:20 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
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