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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
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Subject: Re: [Patch 0/4] IndustrialIO subsystem (ADCs, accelerometers etc)
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On Wednesday 2008-07-23 19:00, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>The need for an industrialio subsystem was discussed in
>http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/135
>
>Firstly thanks to all the people who have contributed to the discussion
>of this in the past.
>
>In brief the intention is provide a kernel subsystem directed towards the
>handling on sensors (and later related output devices) such as ADC's,
>accelerometers and many others.

Could this be done using UIO instead?