Re: [PATCH v2] add support for Freescale's MMA8653FC 10 bit accelerometer

[Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>]

Am 2015-03-18 um 17:59 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 17:42 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
>>
> <snip>
>> It could have gone to drivers/iio/accel if it would use an iio 
>> interface, which would make more sense, you are right, but I simply 
>> don't have the time to merge it in to iio.
>>
>> It doesn't use an input interface either but I don't see a good 
>> place for an accelerometer that uses sysfs only.
>>
>> It works well, is a relatively recent chip and a clean dirver. But 
>> this is all I can provide.
> 
> As a person who works on the user-space interaction of those with 
> desktops [1]: Urgh.
> 
> I already have 3 (probably 4) types of accelerometers to contend with, 
> I'm not fond of adding yet another type.
> 
> Is there any way to get this hardware working outside the SoCs it's 
> designed for (say, a device with I2C like a Raspberry Pi), so that a 
> kind soul could handle getting this using the right interfaces?
> 

It works on basically any SoC and is in no way limited in this regard.
Sure, userspace has to expicitely support it and I hear you. Using the
iio interface would make more sense. I can only say I'd love to have the
time to move this driver over. I'm very sorry.

> Cheers
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy
>