From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andi Shyti <andi@etezian.org>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, rob@landley.net, oatilla@gmail.com,
szsolt@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] etzkx accelerometer support
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:51:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130616215110.GA10834@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1371418586.git.andi@etezian.org>
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:40:26PM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> these two patches provide the etzkx device driver which supports
> the following accelerometers:
>
> - Kionix kxcnl
> - Kionix kxtnk
> - ST lisn3dsh
>
> Support for ST lis3dsh accelerometer is still in progress.
>
> The etzkx accelerometers are a kind of devices that are able to
> do gesture recognition directly on the device. It uses two slots
> of 16 steps (bytes) each for loading algorithms which perform
> gesture recognition.
>
> The second patch contains the documentation of the device driver.
>
> On http://www.etezian.org/etzkx/etzkx/ is possible to find more
> informations about the accelerometer.
Why isn't this a drivers/iio/accel/ driver instead of a misc driver?
Please make this an iio driver, then you will be using the correct
user/kernel api to talk to your device.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-16 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-16 21:40 [PATCH 0/2] etzkx accelerometer support Andi Shyti
2013-06-16 21:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] drivers/misc: etzkx driver for kxcnl/kxtnk accelerometer Andi Shyti
2013-06-16 21:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: added etzkx driver documentation Andi Shyti
2013-06-16 21:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-06-16 22:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] etzkx accelerometer support Andi Shyti
2013-06-17 2:58 ` Greg KH
2013-06-17 8:27 ` Andi Shyti
2013-08-08 22:21 ` Andi Shyti
2013-08-08 22:25 ` Greg KH
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