Re: New IIO/counter driver

From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
To: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>,
	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>,
	Patrick Havelange <patrick.havelange@essensium.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Benjamin GAIGNARD <benjamin.gaignard@st.com>,
	<linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
	Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: New IIO/counter driver
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:51:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190112175159.3dac7a70@archlinux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b2bb569-a6e0-25ec-740d-48083b30fe60@st.com>

On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 12:01:57 +0100
Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com> wrote:

> On 1/8/19 11:57 AM, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> > Le mar. 8 janv. 2019 à 01:46, William Breathitt Gray
> > <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> a écrit :  
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 02:45:37PM +0100, Patrick Havelange wrote:  
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I'm in the process of adding a new IIO/counter driver, however I also saw
> >>> that there was a work in progress to have a separate counter subsystem (
> >>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-iio&m=153974167727206 ). But it seems there is
> >>> no recent progress on it.
> >>> What is the state of those patches ? Is it still interesting to develop the
> >>> driver as an IIO/counter , or should I use already that new subsystem ?
> >>>
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Patrick Havelange.  
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am still open to merging this patchset and maintaining the Counter
> >> subsystem. However, I took the lack of response for my latest
> >> submission to indicate a loss of interest in this patchset's approach.
> >> If there are still people who want this, I can rebase and resend this
> >> patchset for submission; the past few versions have primarily been code
> >> clarity and documentation changes so I believe the core design itself is
> >> somewhat stable now.
> >>
> >> Just let me know how best to proceed and I shall be happy to oblige --
> >> whether to continue maintaining this patchset or to drop this design in
> >> favor of improving the existing IIO Counter code in the kernel.
> >>
> >> I'll CC those from the patchset submission to keep them in the loop.  
> > 
> > I confirm that I still interested to get those patches merged.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Benjamin  
> Hi,
> 
> Same for me,
In a more abstract fashion (I don't have any hardware of this type!)
I'm still keen for the counter subsystem to go in.  Hopefully, if
Greg or anyone else wants to take a detailed look they will have time
this cycle to do so.

I was pretty happy with the last version I read through.  There will
always be things to improved, but as long a we are happy with
the userspace inteface, the little things can happen later.

Jonathan

> 
> Regards,
> Fabrice
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> William Breathitt Gray
> >>
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> > 
> >   