From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752254Ab0AZJee (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:34:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750754Ab0AZJed (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:34:33 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f189.google.com ([209.85.222.189]:37914 "EHLO mail-pz0-f189.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751971Ab0AZJeb (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:34:31 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=dOBc0/WL9B7dKQ1DHSK7E5/baAv/Fb23Fl0gM2v6eH2SipOxJgcYdLJYwfLDlNkmJA qHGjNCpQVUOF0mZO4VzD1Qw77nHWFMImLHpzYTHmt33p7dbYw8/g9svMhmTKrfkDUwXE MmOetsPF1xD+zE6i4KF6Q3RiIlEajvWzsP2YA= Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:34:22 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Greg KH Cc: Jonathan Cameron , Jonathan Cameron , LKML , Manuel Stahl , "Hennerich, Michael" , "Frysinger, Michael" , "Getz, Robin" , Jean Delvare , "Trisal, Kalhan" , "Zhang, Xing Z" , Ira Snyder Subject: Re: [RFC] Staging:IIO: New ABI Message-ID: <20100126093422.GA3480@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <4B571DA4.6070603@cam.ac.uk> <20100120153748.GA29401@kroah.com> <4B573501.9090001@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk> <20100122204718.GA15759@kroah.com> <20100123001414.GB14538@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100123003112.GA7836@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100123003112.GA7836@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:31:12PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:14:15PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:47:18PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:53:21PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > > I am not aware of these. Could you direct me to the current api? Also note that these > > > > aren't the actual alarms, merely a means of enabling the relevant event on the related > > > > event character device. > > > > > > Hm, I thought we had an accelerator interface somewhere... > > > > > > > Nope. And I am also interested in this since I am sittign on a bunch of > > accelerometers, magnetometers, etc drivers that are trying to plug into > > input sysbsystem and quite unsure what to do with them. > > > > It was OK whch HDAPS and friends when they were using input for > > secondary, toyish purposes, but these new drivers trying to use input > > devnts as primary API and I am unsure if it is the best solution. > > Accelerometer might be used as an input device but not always an input > > device. > > Yeah, I see it using a joystick interface, which might be acceptable for > "toy" devices like you say. > > But for "real" ones, we should do something else. > > Maybe, for devices that are going to be used by x.org, like the "toy" > ones, we stick with the current input interface, but for others, we use > a "real" interface, probably through hwmon, so that users can get the > real data out in a consistant manner. > I'd rather have all of them use real interface and then have a bridge to input module to enable toyish mode (unless the device in question is really truly an input device). -- Dmitry