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

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Message-ID: <20170525232255.GA1526@katana>
Date:   Fri, 26 May 2017 01:22:55 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Samu Onkalo <samu.onkalo@...el.com>,
        "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


> > 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?

The bh1770 seems to be used on the N950:
http://elinux.org/N950

I couldn't find a user of the apds990x.


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