linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Moving magnetometer HMC6352 into IIO subsystem

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Message-ID: <20110815220728.62f27e35@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:07:28 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jonathan Kunkee <jonathan.kunkee@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving magnetometer HMC6352 into IIO subsystem

> Should the HMC6352 digital compass driver (drivers/misc/hmc6352.c)
> be moved under the IIO subsystem (drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer)?

No - that would be a regression .. but read on

> Magnetometers act as ADCs and can have high sampling rates and
> complex internals, so I think that according to
> drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/overview.txt they should almost always
> land in IIO land.

IIO is a staging project that may never go anywhere - some of us are
using magnetometers in product so this alone isn't an answer that works
right now.

> I would be willing to work on the change as I want to submit a similar
> driver for the HMC6343 magnetometer/accelerometer as well.

It would be great if it got added into the IIO subystem *as well*, and in
time when and if IIO goes out of staging it would then eventually replace
the existing drivers.

Alan
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