Re: [PATCH] Added driver for ISL29003 ambient light sensor

[Daniel Mack <daniel-rDUAYElUppE@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:48:57AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:57:28 +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > This patch adds a driver for Intersil's ISL29003 ambient light sensor
> > device plus some documentation. Inspired by tsl2550.c, a driver for a
> > similar device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel-rDUAYElUppE@public.gmane.org>
> > ---
> > Moved the driver to drivers/hwmon
> > 
> >  Documentation/hwmon/isl29003 |   62 +++++
> >  drivers/hwmon/Kconfig        |   10 +
> >  drivers/hwmon/Makefile       |    1 +
> >  drivers/hwmon/isl29003.c     |  517 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 590 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/isl29003
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/isl29003.c
> 
> Still no luck, sorry. Light sensors have nothing to do with hardware
> monitoring.

Sorry to annoy you again with that topic, but I'm a little stuck here.
The 'industrial I/O' thread I was pointed to seems to be orphaned and I
didn't get much response on the LKML about alternatives either.

As hwmon still appears the best existing place for such a driver to live
in, could we just take it and move it somewhere else as soon somebody
comes along with some better idea? I'd just like to avoid it being lost,
and every other approach does not feel very productive currently.

Daniel