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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>, Hemanth V <hemanthv@ti.com>,
	"linux-input@vger.kernel.org" <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	"igor.stoppa@nokia.com" <igor.stoppa@nokia.com>,
	"kai.svahn@nokia.com" <kai.svahn@nokia.com>,
	"matthias.nyman@nokia.com" <matthias.nyman@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: Sensors and the input layer (was Re: [RFC] [PATCH V2 1/2] input: CMA3000 Accelerometer driver)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:46:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100831104659.11ebc8a0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100830214355.GB28865@core.coreip.homeip.net>

> IIO which is currently in staging.

Except we had ALS before that as a layer and Linus vetoed it. So there is
zero faith in IIO ever going anywhere.

Instead we now have about ten different light sensor APIs to the point
developers are writing a toolkit userspace plugin for *each* sensor.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21  6:52 [RFC] [PATCH V2 1/2] input: CMA3000 Accelerometer driver Hemanth V
2010-05-21 11:57 ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-05-21 14:13   ` Hemanth V
2010-08-13 12:47   ` Hemanth V
2010-08-13 13:34     ` Murphy, Dan
2010-08-16  9:45       ` Hemanth V
2010-08-29 18:24       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-29 18:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-30 16:04   ` Sensors and the input layer (was Re: [RFC] [PATCH V2 1/2] input: CMA3000 Accelerometer driver) Felipe Balbi
2010-08-30 16:28     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-30 17:10       ` Felipe Balbi
2010-08-30 17:21         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-30 18:52           ` Felipe Balbi
2010-08-30 20:50             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-31  9:53               ` Alan Cox
2010-08-30 17:41         ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-08-30 20:40     ` Alan Cox
2010-08-30 20:44       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-30 21:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-30 21:43           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-30 22:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-30 22:43               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-31  5:15                 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-08-31  9:44                 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-31 12:35                   ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-08-31 16:17                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-31 16:59                     ` Alan Cox
2010-08-31 17:09                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-08-31 17:24                         ` Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
2010-08-31 18:14                           ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-08-31 22:21                         ` Chris Hudson
2010-09-24 13:02                         ` Pavel Machek
2010-09-24 13:26                           ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-08-31 18:03                       ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-08-31 18:20                         ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-09-14  7:12                 ` Pavel Machek
2010-08-31  9:46             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-08-31 12:51               ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-08-31 18:18           ` Daniel Barkalow
2010-09-03 10:32   ` [RFC] [PATCH V2 1/2] input: CMA3000 Accelerometer driver Hemanth V
2010-09-03 16:34     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-09-06  9:03       ` Hemanth V

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