misc: bh1770glc: move sysfs interace to Documentation/ABI

Aishwarya Pant aishpant at gmail.com
Tue Jan 2 09:25:16 PST 2018


On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > In Documentation/misc-devices/bh1770glc.txt, there is a description of the sysfs
> > interface which could be moved to Documentation/ABI.
> > 
> > Would such a change be useful?
> 
> Not at the moment.
> 
> > The ABI documentation format looks like the following:
> > 
> > What:          (the full sysfs path of the attribute)
> > Date:          (date of creation)
> > KernelVersion: (kernel version it first showed up in)
> > Contact:       (primary contact)
> > Description:   (long description on usage)
> > 
> > I am doing this in an exercise to move sysfs ABI interfaces (which are
> > documented) to their right place i.e. in Documentation/ABI along with the rest.
> 
> The interface should probably be changed to iio one, to be consistent
> with other sensors such as Apds990x.
> 
> If you have the hardware, help would be welcome.

Yes, makes sense for this driver to be with the iio light sensors. I don't have
the hardware for it. So, I won't move the sysfs interface to ABI.

Aishwarya

> 
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