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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Hemanth V <hemanthv@ti.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
	Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	drivers@analog.com, achew@nvidia.com,
	Donggeun Kim <dg77.kim@samsung.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:03:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112150316.GB18096@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7BC12C510D794F198DFA5A5C104CD7B6@wipblrx0099946>

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com>
> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>; "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@mail.ru>
>
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
>> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.
>>
>>
>>> Given the lack of further comment, I went ahead and implemented the above 
>>> naming
>>> scheme for IIO. As the above discussion with Hemanth shows, there are 
>>> some corner cases
>>> that will need futher thought in the future.
>>>
>>
>> Jonathan, haven't seen many comments on this. Do u think the reason
>> might be that these interfaces are hidden behind a HAL layer like in 
>> android and
>> might not be a burning issue for many people.
>>
>
> Dmitry, could you let us know your thoughts on this too.
> Would using a HAL layer be better compared to creating a standard
> sysfs interface, as it seems to be the popular approach.

What "HAL layer"?  HAL the userspace project is now dead, so you should
standardize on a common sysfs or some other user/kernel api that the
kernel exports for the same type of devices to make it so that
everything works the same way.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12 10:04 Sensor event related attribute naming Hemanth V
2010-11-12 15:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-11-12 17:32 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-15  6:40   ` Hemanth V
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-21 14:58 RFC: " Jonathan Cameron
2010-09-24 10:34 ` Hemanth V
2010-09-24 11:58   ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-09-27  9:42     ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-09-30 10:06       ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-11-08 14:07         ` Hemanth V

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