From: "Éric Piel" <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
"Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>,
Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
HWMON <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25.4] hwmon: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D ACPI driver -- please review!
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:43:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484728B2.1000209@tremplin-utc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080604230510.GB30475@elf.ucw.cz>
05-06-08 01:05, Pavel Machek wrote/a écrit:
> Hi!
>
>> So my advice is that you don't wait for a review from the hwmon people,
>> because apparently we don't have much interest in this type of device,
>> so you'll be waiting forever. You're much better adding the mdps driver
>> to drivers/misc through Andrew Morton, at least until someone takes
>> care of creating a subsystem for this type of devices and move all
>> existing drivers there.
>
> Just create drivers/accel ... accelerometers are quite common these
> days. Going to drivers/misc is okay, too, I guess -- moves are easy
> with git ;-).
Yes, why not do one little step to the correct direction now and create
drivers/accel, it will likely be the chosen name anyway! That will not
yet be a "real" subsystem, just a place to put all the related drivers
already present together.
Anyone against this idea?
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-04 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-31 12:05 [PATCH 2.6.25.4] hwmon: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D ACPI driver Yan Burman
2008-06-04 19:24 ` [PATCH 2.6.25.4] hwmon: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D ACPI driver -- please review! Éric Piel
2008-06-04 20:58 ` Jean Delvare
2008-06-04 22:57 ` Éric Piel
2008-06-05 6:27 ` Jean Delvare
2008-06-04 23:05 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-04 23:43 ` Éric Piel [this message]
2008-06-05 6:29 ` Jean Delvare
2008-06-05 9:38 ` [lm-sensors] " Jonathan Cameron
2008-06-05 20:34 ` Éric Piel
2008-06-05 22:27 ` Pau Oliva Fora
2008-06-06 14:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-06-06 15:29 ` Pau Oliva Fora
2008-06-06 14:56 ` Eric Piel
2008-06-06 15:30 ` Pau Oliva Fora
2008-06-06 8:51 ` Jonathan Cameron
2008-06-04 23:03 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-04 23:29 ` Éric Piel
2008-06-05 1:06 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-06-05 8:19 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-06 14:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-06-06 14:59 ` Eric Piel
2008-06-06 15:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-06-06 15:37 ` Pau Oliva Fora
2008-06-05 5:17 ` [PATCH 2.6.25.4] hwmon: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D ACPI driver Andrew Morton
2008-06-05 7:43 ` [lm-sensors] " Riku Voipio
2008-06-05 8:28 ` Eric Piel
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