From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758814AbaIOVCK (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:02:10 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:56070 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755731AbaIOVCG (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:02:06 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,862,1389772800"; d="scan'208";a="386460491" Message-ID: <541753A3.8010102@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:01:23 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Darren Hart CC: Azael Avalos , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] toshiba_acpi: Fix accelerometer direction reporting References: <1410569437-3066-1-git-send-email-coproscefalo@gmail.com> <1410569437-3066-2-git-send-email-coproscefalo@gmail.com> <20140915192923.GA61529@vmdeb7> <20140915195617.GA3652@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20140915195617.GA3652@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/15/2014 12:56 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> I have also suggested this device (2 actually) would be better supported as an >> IIO accelerometer device, but even that would change the sysfs interface by >> removing these altogether and using the IIO standardized path and accelerometer >> interface. > > That's a better goal overall, then the "odd" sysfs files are now gone, > to be replaced with the standard interface which all tools should > already be using. > I would definitely agree with that, although I understood there were technical concerns with that? -hpa