Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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? > No, this lot is directed towards devices that use serial buses such as i2c and SPI whereas UIO is, from my admittedly cursory knowledge, intended for devices which can have their control registers memory mapped into user space.
Looks like I need to be a bit more specific in my descriptions. It's terrible but as all the sensors etc I work with are connected like this it never occurred to me to make it explicit in the description. -- Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general
