On Feb 25, 2017 5:35 PM, "William Hermans" <[email protected]> wrote: > Why do you think a new driver needs to be written ?
My desire is to get support for eQEP upstream in the mainline Linux kernel. I don't believe it is easy to get new misc drivers merged. IIO seems to be the only subsystem that is suitable but I'd be interested know of other subsystems that would be appropriate. > But if you're intent on having something IIO, and new driver . . . the ecap modules probably fits into that category better. The ecap module now, I could find all kinds of "out of the ordinary" uses eCAP is interesting as there seems to be two modes: capture input, and PWM output. The use of eCAP as PWM output is already supported in mainline as part of epwmss. However, the eCAP input driver written Matt Porter is still out-of-tree and carried as a patch by Robert. At least this my understanding after chatting with Robert Nelson and Michael Welling last week. eCAP input seems to be another candidate to upstream. Question is which subsystem fits best. Thanks Drew -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAEf4M_DSpTrnon70OXXPDYn5gadKzJ%3DaZeow%3DzbHyE3gOS03nQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
