Re: [PATCH] mfd: twl4030: Driver for twl4030 madc module

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Mon Nov 30 2009 - 12:52:30 EST


On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:58:39 +0200, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > By the way, have you considered moving this one to drivers/hwmon ?
>
> I haven't. I moved it from i2c/chips/ to the most obvious place I
> could think of - drivers/mfd. But wasn't this the point of mfd - that
> various subcomponents drivers could live there instead of being
> scattered across the driver tree?
>
> Adding Jean to CC, if he would consider taking this driver in drivers/hwmon..

In its current form, no. This driver doesn't implement the sysfs
interface described in Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. It doesn't
even register a hwmon class device. So it doesn't belong in
drivers/hwmon.

--
Jean Delvare
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