linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] iio: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time

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Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:22:28 +0100
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	srinivas pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] iio: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time

On 12/10/2012 08:45 PM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 10.12.2012 18:05, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen:
> 
>> Looks pretty good now. But there are still some IIO remnants which should be
>> removed as well. Also the driver should move to drivers/rtc/ since, well,
>> it's a rtc driver not a IIO driver.
> 
> I think it still should be stick to iio, because that is where all HID
> sensors currently are found and where the user would expect to find such
> a driver.

That's because all the current IIO sensor drivers fall in the IIO domain. This
one clearly is a RTC driver, so it belongs in drivers/rtc/

> 
>>> +/* Channel definitions */
>>> +static const struct iio_chan_spec hid_time_channels[TIME_RTC_CHANNEL_MAX] = {
> 
> And that is imho the last remaining iio-stuff. If necessary I can remove
> it too.

That and the remaining bits of the read_raw callback.
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