linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 00:33:39 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Samu Onkalo <samu.onkalo@...el.com>
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        "linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org" <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: apds990x: move header file out of I2C realm

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Should we also remove the drivers or move them into staging?
>>
>> I'd prefer to keep them. If they are needed again, DT conversion is
>> likely and easier than restarting from scratch. Guenter Roeck also
>> prefers to not unnecessarily annoy people who might have out-of-tree
>> board code. So, as long as they are not painful, let's keep them?
>
> The one reason I can think of for removing them is that we don't
> want ambient light sensor drivers in drivers/misc any more and
> instead of adding DT probing code would also expect new users to
> migrate to drivers/iio/light/, which already has drivers for
> apds9300 and apds9960 but not apds990x, as well as bh1750 and
> bh1780 but not bh1770.

This (apds990x) and bh1770 were added by Samu Onkalo
for Nokia's upstreaming efforts.

Samu, what are the hardware targets using this? Something that
has a userspace etc that we can test?

Like Nokia 900 or so?

Yours,
Linus Walleij