From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Burman Yan <yan_952@hotmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HP mobile data protection system driver
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:50:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061013155020.GA8204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490610130306v3bfe13b4j135cc474ff718657@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:06:40PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > + accelerometer data is readable via /proc/drivers/mdps.
>
> I believe it would be better to use sysfs. Procfs is cluttered enough
> as it is and there's not much will to clutter it further.
Better yet, would be to use the same interface the hdaps driver uses
so that userspace written for one accelerometer works with any hardware.
Having to cope with a dozen different drivers who export in different
places is just silly.
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-13 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-13 8:47 [PATCH] HP mobile data protection system driver Burman Yan
2006-10-13 9:26 ` Andrey Panin
2006-10-13 10:06 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-13 15:50 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-10-13 16:17 ` Burman Yan
2006-10-13 16:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-13 18:40 ` Burman Yan
2006-10-13 18:59 ` Burman Yan
2006-10-13 20:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-13 17:13 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-13 18:25 ` Burman Yan
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2006-11-02 19:34 Burman Yan
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