Re: sysfs and power management

Greg KH
2010-11-01T18:06:58Z

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:57:01PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I took a look to that. It seems that iio is more or less sysfs based.
> > There are ring buffers and event device which are chardev based
> > but still the data outside ring buffer and the control is sysfs based.
>
> IIO is sysfs dependant, heavyweight and makes no sense for some of the
> sysfs based drivers. IIO is also staging based and Linus already threw
> out the last attempt to unify these drivers sanely with an ALS layer -
> which was smaller, cleaner and better !

I think we need to revisit this issue again, before iio is merged to the
main kernel tree. I've been totally ignoring the iio user/kernel api at
the moment, waiting for things to settle down there.

thanks,

greg k-h