linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IIO: stm32: Remove quadrature related functions from trigger driver

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Date:   Tue, 7 May 2019 14:37:07 +0200
From:   Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Cc:     Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...com>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
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        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@...com>,
        linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IIO: stm32: Remove quadrature related functions from
 trigger driver

Le mar. 7 mai 2019 à 12:19, William Breathitt Gray
<vilhelm.gray@...il.com> a écrit :
>
> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 11:12:24AM +0200, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> > Quadrature feature is now hosted on it own framework.
> > Remove quadrature related code from stm32-trigger driver to avoid
> > code duplication and simplify the ABI.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...com>
>
> Although this functionality is now provided by the Counter subsystem, we
> should keep the IIO Counter interface for this driver intact since
> existing user applications may depend on it; this is the same reason why
> the IIO Counter code in the 104-QUAD-8 device driver was not removed
> despite moving to the Counter subsystem.
>
> Once user applications have had enough time to migrate to the Generic
> Counter interface, we can consider removing the deprecated IIO Counter
> interface.

Hi William,

This SoC is not yet in production so their is no legacy on the old interface
and I would like to avoid to create one.

Benjamin

>
> William Breathitt Gray
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