Re: [PATCH v3] iio: add LM3533 ambient-light-sensor driver

[Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:27:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 18:46:36 +0200
> Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add sub-driver for the ambient-light-sensor interface on National
> > Semiconductor / TI LM3533 lighting power chips.
> > 
> > The sensor interface can be used to control the LEDs and backlights of
> > the chip through defining five light zones and three sets of
> > corresponding brightness target levels.
> > 
> > The driver provides raw and mean adc readings along with the current
> > light zone through sysfs. A threshold event can be generated on zone
> > changes.
> >
> > ...
> >
> >  drivers/staging/iio/light/Kconfig                  |   16 +
> >  drivers/staging/iio/light/Makefile                 |    1 +
> >  drivers/staging/iio/light/lm3533-als.c             |  726 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Why is this aimed at drivers/staging/, rather than directly into
> drivers/iio/?

I understood it as it was only iio core which was moving out of staging
in 3.5, but I see now that some drivers have been added directly to
driver/iio. My mistake.

I'll make sure to move it to drivers/iio/light.

Thanks for pointing it out,
Johan