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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Sensors and similar - subsystem interactions, divisions, bindings etc.
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:10:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160721191028.GS6509@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5222c3bb-d6b7-0ccc-bf9e-becf5046a37a@kernel.org>

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On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:18:11PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

> 4) Should we drop all the bindings for bridging between such subsystems
> and do it all from userspace?

This clearly doesn't seem sensible, we have plenty of hardware that's
obviously wired up in a fixed function format even if it could be
general purpose and several duplicated ABIs (eg, hwmon and power_supply
have clear overlap).

> I think we may end up with a hybrid of the two, but need to be able to
> make it work in 'standard' cases without userspace being involved. That
> hybrid solution may well be devicetree overlay based... Unclear so far.
> + plenty of crazy things that 'might' make sense where there isn't even
> the pretence of representing real hardware.

I'm definitely seeing people choosing their kernel subsystem on the
basis of libiio.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-21 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-20 21:18 Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-21  7:39 ` Hans Verkuil
2016-07-22 19:37   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-28 16:50   ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-21 19:10 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2016-07-22  3:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-22  4:18   ` Torokhov
2016-07-22 19:01     ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-22 10:21   ` Mark Brown
2016-07-22 19:31   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-23  2:29     ` Sebastian Reichel
2016-07-28 21:30   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-07-28 22:39     ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-29  0:56     ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-29  5:54       ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-22 12:04 ` Linus Walleij
2016-07-22 19:22   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-28 16:46   ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-28 18:08     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-08-02 19:55       ` Linus Walleij
2016-07-28 22:07     ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-08-02 19:50     ` Linus Walleij
2016-07-27  3:12 ` Vinod Koul
2016-07-28 11:58 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-07-28 16:42   ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-28 22:09     ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-08-01 11:03       ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-29  7:28     ` Hans Verkuil
2016-08-01 11:47       ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-28 22:32   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-28 16:39 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-28 18:53   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-07-28 19:46     ` Mark Brown
2016-07-31 17:47     ` Vinod Koul
2016-08-01 12:14     ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-28 22:26   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-07-29  7:36     ` Hans Verkuil
2016-08-01 11:19     ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-28 19:12 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-07-28 23:38 ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-07-29  6:04   ` Jonathan Cameron

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