linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Driver for as1531, Austria-Microsystem Analog to Digital Converter.

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Message-ID: <20110517133805.GA4006@ericsson.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 06:38:05 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>
To:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
CC:	"fabien.marteau@...adeus.com" <fabien.marteau@...adeus.com>,
	"khali@...ux-fr.org" <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	"lm-sensors@...sensors.org" <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Driver for as1531, Austria-Microsystem Analog
 to Digital Converter.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:25:01AM -0400, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 05/17/11 08:06, Fabien Marteau wrote:
> > Hi Guenter,
> > 
> > Thanks for the review.
> > 
> > On 16/05/2011 17:39, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:39:14AM -0400, fabien.marteau@...adeus.com wrote:
> >>> From: Fabien Marteau <fabien.marteau@...adeus.com>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Some description, such as "Dhis driver adds support for xxx" would be nice.
> >>
> >> Also, I wonder if this driver belongs into hwmon in the first place. It is
> >> a generic ADC chip with high conversion rate. iio would probably be more
> >> appropriate and also much better in supporting high speed readings.
> > I provided this driver "as is" because it's a driver that work well on
> > our platform. I thought that iio was not stable enough driver framework
> > to be used.
> > I can rewrite it under iio framework but I have no time for this moment
> > to do that. You think it's better to wait for an iio driver or to
> > continue commiting this ?
> I'd say that if you primary use is hwmon, put it there for now and we can think
> about moving it at a later date depending on how people are actually using it.
> Guenter, would that be ok for you?

Yes, that would be ok.

Thanks,
Guenter
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