Messages in this thread | | | From | "Hemanth V" <> | Subject | Re: Sensor event related attribute naming. | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:10:34 +0530 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:02 PM Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@ti.com> >> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk>; "Dmitry Torokhov" >> <dtor@mail.ru> >> >> >> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cameron" >> ><jic23@cam.ac.uk> >> >To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@cam.ac.uk> >> >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:36 PM >> >Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming. >> > >> > >> >>Given the lack of further comment, I went ahead and implemented >> >>the above naming >> >>scheme for IIO. As the above discussion with Hemanth shows, >> >>there are some corner cases >> >>that will need futher thought in the future. >> >> >> > >> >Jonathan, haven't seen many comments on this. Do u think the reason >> >might be that these interfaces are hidden behind a HAL layer like >> >in android and >> >might not be a burning issue for many people. >> > >> >> Dmitry, could you let us know your thoughts on this too. >> Would using a HAL layer be better compared to creating a standard >> sysfs interface, as it seems to be the popular approach. >> > > Hemanth, > > I do not really see the difference between sysfs interface and HAL > interface. They both abstract hardware details and bring them to common > denominator. If you guys can agree on HAL interface I trust sysfs should > be possible too ;) > > BTW, the reason I do not comment on sysfs accelerometer infrastructure > is because it is not topic I am vested in, my time budget barely covers > pure input matters. So as long as there is something that is common and > shared between drivers I would be good with it; you guys need to decide > on details, please. >
Dmitry, thanks for the clarification, just wanted to make sure everyone is on the same page.
As you had suggested, I will push the cma3000 driver without the sysfs interface. I will parallely work with Jonathan to come up with a standard sysfs interface.
Thanks Hemanth
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