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From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
To: fabien.marteau@armadeus.com
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>,
	"khali@linux-fr.org" <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	"lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org" <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Driver for as1531, Austria-Microsystem Analog to Digital Converter.
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:25:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD23EED.4010201@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD21E5E.9000605@armadeus.com>

On 05/17/11 08:06, Fabien Marteau wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> Thanks for the review.
> 
> On 16/05/2011 17:39, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:39:14AM -0400, fabien.marteau@armadeus.com wrote:
>>> From: Fabien Marteau <fabien.marteau@armadeus.com>
>>>
>>>
>> Some description, such as "Dhis driver adds support for xxx" would be nice.
>>
>> Also, I wonder if this driver belongs into hwmon in the first place. It is
>> a generic ADC chip with high conversion rate. iio would probably be more
>> appropriate and also much better in supporting high speed readings.
> I provided this driver "as is" because it's a driver that work well on
> our platform. I thought that iio was not stable enough driver framework
> to be used.
> I can rewrite it under iio framework but I have no time for this moment
> to do that. You think it's better to wait for an iio driver or to
> continue commiting this ?
I'd say that if you primary use is hwmon, put it there for now and we can think
about moving it at a later date depending on how people are actually using it.
Guenter, would that be ok for you?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-16 13:39 [PATCH] hwmon: Driver for as1531, Austria-Microsystem Analog to Digital Converter fabien.marteau
2011-05-16 15:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-16 15:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-05-17  7:06   ` Fabien Marteau
2011-05-17  9:25     ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]
2011-05-17  9:34       ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-05-17 11:59         ` Fabien Marteau
2011-05-17 13:38       ` Guenter Roeck
2011-05-18 13:09 ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-05-18 15:05   ` Jonathan Cameron
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-16 13:39 fabien.marteau

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