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

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Message-ID: <4B1D190A.1060300@cam.ac.uk>
Date:	Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:02:34 +0000
From:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
To:	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...durent.com>
CC:	List Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	rui.zhang@...el.com, khali@...ux-fr.org, alan@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] Introducing the Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) class

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? Which maintainer will
> pick up the ALS framework?
None that I know of.  Rui offered to maintain ALS, so I guess he could send
a pull request from suitable git tree directly or talk someone else into doing it.

Andrew might be willing?

> 
> Rui, do you have an updated patch for the ACPI ALS driver?
> 
> Regards,
> Amit
> 

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