On 07/14/2013 12:26 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > On 07/13/2013 11:58 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >>>> And are you sure you want to control this through sysfs? There's no >>>> other better user/kernel apis for it? > >>> I found none, besides ioctl(), as the device driven is rather >>> unique. But I thought that sysfs is "ioctl() today", so I went with it... > >> It does sound like it would fit better into IIO than just a misc driver, >> even if it's the only hardware of its kind. > > I got somewhat familiarized myself with drivers/iio/ infrastructure and I > have found a place only the for ADC device in which the customer currently > has no interest. > The other trouble is that I'll have to backport this driver to 3.4 which > doesn't contain the IIO infrastructure at all. :-(
It has, it's just still in staging in 3.4. But the API (except for minor modifications) and more importantly the ABI are the same. There is a angular velocity channel type in IIO. maybe that could be used to report the Speed-Pulse-ADC values. - Lars -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
