From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756537AbbCRSCX (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:02:23 -0400 Received: from mx02.posteo.de ([89.146.194.165]:42193 "EHLO mx02.posteo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756477AbbCRSCU (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:02:20 -0400 Message-ID: <5509BDA0.9000806@posteo.de> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:02:08 +0100 From: Martin Kepplinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bastien Nocera CC: Alexander Stein , robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Martin Kepplinger , Christoph Muellner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] add support for Freescale's MMA8653FC 10 bit accelerometer References: <1426694157-10866-1-git-send-email-martink@posteo.de> <2231139.ojeyer6qnI@ws-stein> <5509AAE5.1000503@posteo.de> <1426697978.6764.8.camel@hadess.net> In-Reply-To: <1426697978.6764.8.camel@hadess.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 2015-03-18 um 17:59 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 17:42 +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: >> > >> 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 >