Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] misc: sensorhub: Add sensorhub driver

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Nov 21 2014 - 14:38:36 EST


On Friday 21 November 2014 19:19:13 Karol Wrona wrote:
> Sensorhub is MCU dedicated to collect data and manage several sensors.
> Sensorhub is a spi device which provides a layer for IIO devices. It provides
> some data parsing and common mechanism for sensorhub sensors.
>
> Adds common sensorhub library for sensorhub driver and iio drivers
> which uses sensorhub MCU to communicate with sensors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Karol Wrona <k.wrona@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/misc/sensorhub/Kconfig | 13 +
> drivers/misc/sensorhub/Makefile | 6 +
> drivers/misc/sensorhub/ssp.h | 279 +++++++++++
> drivers/misc/sensorhub/ssp_dev.c | 828 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/misc/sensorhub/ssp_spi.c | 653 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/iio/common/ssp_sensors.h | 79 +++

You seem to provide infrastructure for other drivers here, so I don't think
drivers/misc is a good place. Have you considered making this a regular
mfd driver? If that doesn't fit, is there possibly some place in the iio
framework for this kind of driver?

Arnd
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