Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Driver for as1531, Austria-Microsystem Analogto Digital Converter.

From: Fabien Marteau
Date: Tue May 17 2011 - 07:59:20 EST


On 17/05/2011 11:34, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 05/17/11 10:25, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 05/17/11 08:06, Fabien Marteau wrote:
>>> Hi Guenter,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the review.
>>>
>>> On 16/05/2011 17:39, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:39:14AM -0400, fabien.marteau@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>> From: Fabien Marteau <fabien.marteau@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Some description, such as "Dhis driver adds support for xxx" would be nice.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I wonder if this driver belongs into hwmon in the first place. It is
>>>> a generic ADC chip with high conversion rate. iio would probably be more
>>>> appropriate and also much better in supporting high speed readings.
>>> I provided this driver "as is" because it's a driver that work well on
>>> our platform. I thought that iio was not stable enough driver framework
>>> to be used.
>>> I can rewrite it under iio framework but I have no time for this moment
>>> to do that. You think it's better to wait for an iio driver or to
>>> continue commiting this ?
>> I'd say that if you primary use is hwmon, put it there for now and we can think
>> about moving it at a later date depending on how people are actually using it.
>> Guenter, would that be ok for you?
> Having actually taken a look at the code, it's straight forward, so if you
> are using it as a general purpose adc then I'm happy to port to IIO
> sometimes soonish... Will need some testing at somepoint though.
I've got it on my platform, then I can test it without problem if you want.

Fabien
>
> Jonathan
>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/