linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc: add driver for Renesas R-Car Gyro-ADC/speed-pulse interfaces

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Message-Id: <201307130958.16533.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sat, 13 Jul 2013 09:58:16 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: add driver for Renesas R-Car Gyro-ADC/speed-pulse interfaces

On Saturday 13 July 2013, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > And are you sure you want to control this through sysfs?  There's no
> > other better user/kernel apis for it?
> 
>     I found none, besides ioctl(), as the device driven is rather 
> unique. But I thought that sysfs is "ioctl() today", so I went with it...
> 

It does sound like it would fit better into IIO than just a misc driver,
even if it's the only hardware of its kind.

	Arnd
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