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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] hwmon: add Maxim MAX197 support
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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