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

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Date:	Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:51:37 +0800
From:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
To:	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...durent.com>
Cc:	List Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"jic23@....ac.uk" <jic23@....ac.uk>,
	"alan@...ux.intel.com" <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] Introducing the Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) class

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 22:00 +0800, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> wrote:
> > 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@...durent.com> 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):
> >> >  als: add unique device-ids to the als device class
> >> >
> >> > Zhang Rui (1):
> >> >  introduce ALS sysfs class
> >> >
> >> >  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-als |    9 ++
> >> >  MAINTAINERS                               |    6 ++
> >> >  drivers/Kconfig                           |    2 +
> >> >  drivers/Makefile                          |    1 +
> >> >  drivers/als/Kconfig                       |   10 +++
> >> >  drivers/als/Makefile                      |    5 +
> >> >  drivers/als/als_sys.c                     |  116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> >  include/linux/als_sys.h                   |   35 +++++++++
> >> >  8 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-als
> >> >  create mode 100644 drivers/als/Kconfig
> >> >  create mode 100644 drivers/als/Makefile
> >> >  create mode 100644 drivers/als/als_sys.c
> >> >  create 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.
> 
> Rui,
> 
> Not sure about the LKML netiquette here, but I could track this patchset to
> get it merged. Let me know.

that would be great.

thanks,
rui

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