linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add STMicroelectronics LPS001WP pressure sensor device driver into misc

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Message-Id: <201103142046.25393.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:46:25 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
Cc:	mems applications <mems.applications@...com>, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	carmine.iascone@...com, matteo.dameno@...com,
	rubini@...vis.unipv.it, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add STMicroelectronics LPS001WP pressure sensor device driver into misc

On Monday 14 March 2011 20:19:20 Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> The big issue raised last time around is that this is not a conventional human
> input device.  Hence Dmitry isn't going to take it into input.  That doesn't
> just mean that you have to move it's physical location; it also means you have
> to not use the input interfaces at all.

How about making this a hwmon driver instead?
There are already a number of temperature sensor drivers in
driver/hwmon/, I think it would fit in well there.

This would mean moving it to the other directory,
registering it to the common hwmon api (hwmon_device_register)
and rewriting the user API to blend in with the other
hwmon drivers.

	Arnd
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