Re: [RFC] Staging:IIO: New ABI

Pavel Machek
2010-01-27T07:08:09Z

> > > Nope. And I am also interested in this since I am sittign on a bunch of
> > > accelerometers, magnetometers, etc drivers that are trying to plug into
> > > input sysbsystem and quite unsure what to do with them.
> > >
> > > It was OK whch HDAPS and friends when they were using input for
> > > secondary, toyish purposes, but these new drivers trying to use input
> > > devnts as primary API and I am unsure if it is the best solution.
> > > Accelerometer might be used as an input device but not always an input
> > > device.
> >
> > Yeah, I see it using a joystick interface, which might be acceptable for
> > "toy" devices like you say.
> >
> > But for "real" ones, we should do something else.
> >
> > Maybe, for devices that are going to be used by x.org, like the "toy"
> > ones, we stick with the current input interface, but for others, we use
> > a "real" interface, probably through hwmon, so that users can get the
> > real data out in a consistant manner.
>
> I'd rather have all of them use real interface and then have a bridge
> to input module to enable toyish mode (unless the device in question
> is really truly an input device).

Well, if you look at the PDA class devices, they really use
magnetometers and accelerometers for input. I guess we should look at
better support in input...
Pavel
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