Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:34:36PM +0530, Hemanth V wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hemanth V" <hemanthv@xxxxxx>
> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@xxxxxxxxx>; "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@xxxxxxx>
>
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Jonathan Cameron" <jic23@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.
>>
>>
>>> Given the lack of further comment, I went ahead and implemented the above 
>>> naming
>>> scheme for IIO. As the above discussion with Hemanth shows, there are 
>>> some corner cases
>>> that will need futher thought in the future.
>>>
>>
>> Jonathan, haven't seen many comments on this. Do u think the reason
>> might be that these interfaces are hidden behind a HAL layer like in 
>> android and
>> might not be a burning issue for many people.
>>
>
> Dmitry, could you let us know your thoughts on this too.
> Would using a HAL layer be better compared to creating a standard
> sysfs interface, as it seems to be the popular approach.

What "HAL layer"?  HAL the userspace project is now dead, so you should
standardize on a common sysfs or some other user/kernel api that the
kernel exports for the same type of devices to make it so that
everything works the same way.

thanks,

greg k-h
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