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From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] hwmon: add Maxim MAX197 support
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:42:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346787736.17786.5.camel@trivette> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120904172034.GA17884@roeck-us.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:20 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > > Applied to -next.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hm, now it's probably to late, but for this kind of general
> purpose ADC the IIO
> > > > framework is in my opinion the better place to add support for
> it.
> > > > 
> > > Possibly. If someone writes an iio driver for it, and everyone
> agrees,
> > > we can drop it from hwmon at that time.
> > I can write one but unfortunately need some testing as I don't have
> this
> > hardware.
> 
> Vivien, any thoughts/comments/feedback ? 

I don't see any particular advantage of including it in the IIO
subsystem. However, if everyone agrees that it should be in the IIO
subsystem, and someone writes a driver for it, I might be able to test
it. Given my current schedule, it's likely to take some time though.

Thanks,
Vivien


      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-31  1:42 [PATCH v3] hwmon: add Maxim MAX197 support Vivien Didelot
2012-08-31 16:04 ` Guenter Roeck
2012-09-01  9:31   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2012-09-02 14:51     ` Guenter Roeck
2012-09-04 15:02       ` anish kumar
2012-09-04 17:20         ` Guenter Roeck
2012-09-04 19:42           ` Vivien Didelot [this message]

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