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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 11:57:13 +0100
From:   Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Cc:     Patrick Havelange <patrick.havelange@...ensium.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Benjamin GAIGNARD <benjamin.gaignard@...com>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@...com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: New IIO/counter driver

Le mar. 8 janv. 2019 à 01:46, William Breathitt Gray
<vilhelm.gray@...il.com> a écrit :
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 02:45:37PM +0100, Patrick Havelange wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm in the process of adding a new IIO/counter driver, however I also saw
> > that there was a work in progress to have a separate counter subsystem (
> > https://marc.info/?l=linux-iio&m=153974167727206 ). But it seems there is
> > no recent progress on it.
> > What is the state of those patches ? Is it still interesting to develop the
> > driver as an IIO/counter , or should I use already that new subsystem ?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Patrick Havelange.
>
> Hello,
>
> I am still open to merging this patchset and maintaining the Counter
> subsystem. However, I took the lack of response for my latest
> submission to indicate a loss of interest in this patchset's approach.
> If there are still people who want this, I can rebase and resend this
> patchset for submission; the past few versions have primarily been code
> clarity and documentation changes so I believe the core design itself is
> somewhat stable now.
>
> Just let me know how best to proceed and I shall be happy to oblige --
> whether to continue maintaining this patchset or to drop this design in
> favor of improving the existing IIO Counter code in the kernel.
>
> I'll CC those from the patchset submission to keep them in the loop.

I confirm that I still interested to get those patches merged.

Regards,
Benjamin
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Breathitt Gray
>
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