Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] Introducing the Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) class

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Mon Dec 07 2009 - 10:04:45 EST


On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:50:23 +0200, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Amit Kucheria
> <amit.kucheria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Introduce a new class of devices to handle ambient light sensors. Currently
> > only one sysfs inteface, 'illuminance' is introduced. More will be added as
> > drivers are ported to use this new class.
> >
> > Amit Kucheria (1):
> > Âals: add unique device-ids to the als device class
> >
> > Zhang Rui (1):
> > Âintroduce ALS sysfs class
> >
> > ÂDocumentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-als | Â Â9 ++
> > ÂMAINTAINERS Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â | Â Â6 ++
> > Âdrivers/Kconfig              |  Â2 +
> > Âdrivers/Makefile             Â|  Â1 +
> > Âdrivers/als/Kconfig            |  10 +++
> > Âdrivers/als/Makefile           Â|  Â5 +
> > Âdrivers/als/als_sys.c           | Â116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Âinclude/linux/als_sys.h          |  35 +++++++++
> > Â8 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > Âcreate mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-als
> > Âcreate mode 100644 drivers/als/Kconfig
> > Âcreate mode 100644 drivers/als/Makefile
> > Âcreate mode 100644 drivers/als/als_sys.c
> > Âcreate mode 100644 include/linux/als_sys.h
> >
>
> (Bump)
>
> Is there any blocker to adding this for 2.6.33?

As far as I am concerned, it's ready to go. And I would love to see it
in 2.6.33.

> Which maintainer will pick up the ALS framework?

As Rui volunteered to be the maintainer of this new subsystem, it would
seem fair that he takes care of the initial push as well.

--
Jean Delvare
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