linux-kernel - Re: misc: bh1770glc: move sysfs interace to Documentation/ABI

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Date:   Tue, 2 Jan 2018 22:55:16 +0530
From:   Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@...il.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
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        Filip Matijević <filip.matijevic.pz@...il.com>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@...ia.com>, julia.lawall@...6.fr,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: misc: bh1770glc: move sysfs interace to Documentation/ABI

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > In Documentation/misc-devices/bh1770glc.txt, there is a description of the sysfs
> > interface which could be moved to Documentation/ABI.
> > 
> > Would such a change be useful?
> 
> Not at the moment.
> 
> > The ABI documentation format looks like the following:
> > 
> > What:          (the full sysfs path of the attribute)
> > Date:          (date of creation)
> > KernelVersion: (kernel version it first showed up in)
> > Contact:       (primary contact)
> > Description:   (long description on usage)
> > 
> > I am doing this in an exercise to move sysfs ABI interfaces (which are
> > documented) to their right place i.e. in Documentation/ABI along with the rest.
> 
> The interface should probably be changed to iio one, to be consistent
> with other sensors such as Apds990x.
> 
> If you have the hardware, help would be welcome.

Yes, makes sense for this driver to be with the iio light sensors. I don't have
the hardware for it. So, I won't move the sysfs interface to ABI.

Aishwarya

> 
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