Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.

[Hemanth V]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Sensor event related attribute naming.


> 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.
>
> Hemanth,
>
> I do not really see the difference between sysfs interface and HAL
> interface. They both abstract hardware details and bring them to common
> denominator. If you guys can agree on HAL interface I trust sysfs should
> be possible too ;)
>
> BTW, the reason I do not comment on sysfs accelerometer infrastructure
> is because it is not topic I am vested in, my time budget barely covers
> pure input matters. So as long as there is something that is common and
> shared between drivers I would be good with it; you guys need to decide
> on details, please.

Dmitry, thanks for the clarification, just wanted to make sure everyone is
on the same page.

As you had suggested, I will push the cma3000 driver without the sysfs
interface. I will parallely work with Jonathan to come up with a standard
sysfs interface.

Thanks
Hemanth 

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