[PATCH 0/6] AIODEV subsystem

[Andrey Smirnov]

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:24:00AM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> Hello everone,
>>
>> This series of patches is a combined version of "hwmon" and "iodev"
>> proposals, submitted several months ago by me and Sascha respectively.
>>
>> The main purpose of this subsystem is to provde means of exposing
>> different analog sensors(temperature, voltage, etc.) or, potentially,
>> "actuators"(e.g. DACs) in a uniformed fashion.
>>
>> This series introduces the subsystem itself, a helper command to
>> display values of all registersd sensors ("hwmon"), and a two drivers
>> leveraging the AIODEV subsystem API (LM75 and TEMPMON).
>>
>> Additionaly, due to TEMPMON driver's need to obtain calibraion
>> information from OCOTP, this patchset adds Steffen Trumtrar's port of
>> NVMEM subsytem from Linux kernel.
>>
>> Sascha, you didn't like "iodev" as a name, so I changed it and I hope
>> you like this one better :-)
>
> Yes, I do. It's more unique ;)
>
> So, the 'A' is for Analog, right?


Correct, 'A' is indeed stands for "analog".

>
> Sascha
>
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