On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:19:04PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 4/11/2012 12:13 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

> >Your simple IIO examples would just use the ADC abstraction, your complex
> >IIO examples would use the ADC abstraction *and* layer it with IIO level
> >code that is mixing it with all the other needed work.

> I suspect you'll end up adding more and more to your adc abstraction
> till you actually
> end up with most of IIO.  That's effectively what we did...   It's
> big because there are
> actually not that many 'simple' adc's out there.

I tend to agree here - I think if we try to establish a strict
separation between the simple and complex abstractions it'd cause more
problems than it will solve trying to split things, and from a hardware
driver level it helps if there's just one upper layer.