Re: [PATCH] Add STMicroelectronics LPS001WP pressure sensor device driver into misc

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Mar 14 2011 - 15:46:39 EST


On Monday 14 March 2011 20:19:20 Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> The big issue raised last time around is that this is not a conventional human
> input device. Hence Dmitry isn't going to take it into input. That doesn't
> just mean that you have to move it's physical location; it also means you have
> to not use the input interfaces at all.

How about making this a hwmon driver instead?
There are already a number of temperature sensor drivers in
driver/hwmon/, I think it would fit in well there.

This would mean moving it to the other directory,
registering it to the common hwmon api (hwmon_device_register)
and rewriting the user API to blend in with the other
hwmon drivers.

Arnd
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