Re: Where to put new sensor drivers?

[Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:41:34PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> I wrote a driver for an I2C connected ambient light sensor and submitted
> it to the linux-i2c list[1]. In the first place, I wasn't aware of
> drivers/i2c/chips being deprecated and hencei, I subsequently moved it to
> what seemed to match best in the current tree, drivers/hwmon. But as
> Jean Delvare pointed out, this is not the place for it either because it
> doesn't really monitor the hardware, which is true.
> 
> So I posted a proposal[2] patch series that adds drivers/sensors for
> such cases (some of the drivers in the legacy folder drivers/i2c/chips
> have the same problem than my new one has) but haven't got reply on it
> yet, probably because linux-i2c is the wrong place to ask.

Hmm, no feedback here either? I was pointed to the 'industrial I/O'
thread[1], but that one didn't go mainline yet, and I didn't find any
reference of someone picking up this idea.

Are such drivers not wanted in the kernel? I could also move my code to
userspace, but I though if it's supported by the kernel, more people
can acutally use it easily.

Daniel

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/1/156