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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] x86, intel_mid: ADC management
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:04:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120412180416.GC18049@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8568A8.5060206@cam.ac.uk>

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:19:04PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 4/11/2012 12:13 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

> >Your simple IIO examples would just use the ADC abstraction, your complex
> >IIO examples would use the ADC abstraction *and* layer it with IIO level
> >code that is mixing it with all the other needed work.

> I suspect you'll end up adding more and more to your adc abstraction
> till you actually
> end up with most of IIO.  That's effectively what we did...   It's
> big because there are
> actually not that many 'simple' adc's out there.

I tend to agree here - I think if we try to establish a strict
separation between the simple and complex abstractions it'd cause more
problems than it will solve trying to split things, and from a hardware
driver level it helps if there's just one upper layer.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-12 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-10 13:20 [PATCH RESEND] x86, intel_mid: ADC management Alan Cox
2012-04-10 13:12 ` Mark Brown
2012-04-10 13:25   ` Alan Cox
2012-04-10 13:33     ` Mark Brown
2012-04-10 13:42       ` Alan Cox
2012-04-10 14:07         ` Mark Brown
2012-04-10 14:15           ` Alan Cox
2012-04-10 15:19             ` Mark Brown
2012-04-10 16:56               ` Alan Cox
2012-04-10 17:58                 ` Mark Brown
2012-04-10 19:39                   ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-04-10 22:37                     ` Mark Brown
2012-04-11  6:19                       ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-04-11  7:44                         ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-04-11 15:38                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-11 16:30                           ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-04-11 23:46                             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-04-12  6:25                               ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-04-11 10:24                   ` Alan Cox
2012-04-11 10:38                     ` Mark Brown
2012-04-11 10:48                       ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-04-11 11:13                         ` Alan Cox
2012-04-11 11:19                           ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-04-11 12:30                             ` Alan Cox
2012-04-11 12:55                               ` Jonathan Cameron
2012-04-12 17:53                               ` Mark Brown
2012-04-12 18:04                             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-04-11 11:38                     ` Jonathan Cameron

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