Re: [PATCH RESEND] x86, intel_mid: ADC management

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:25:01PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The decision seems fairly settled that general purpose ADCs like this

> It's far lower level than things like IIO. It provides very low level
> services to other drivers not to user space. You could in theory write an
> IIO driver to use the interface but at the moment all the consumers are
> low level hardware drivers and likely to remain so.

Right, but fundamentally it's just a general purpose ADC which looks
just the same as all the other SoC/PMIC ADCs.  Like I say the decision
for that hardware was to push it in via IIO.  If we don't do that we're
just going to be stuck with two subsystems doing very similar things.

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