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Hi Andy!

Thanks for your reply. I will start immediately...

Jens

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:49:24 +0000
Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:

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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> | Hi @all,
> |
> | I would like to join the devteam for the openmoko devices. I do have
> | experience concerning driver development on embedded devices and made
> | some userspace software too.
> |
> | I do not want to waste my time. So where is work required? I could
> | imagine to work on a general joystick-device abstraction module that
> | uses the accelerator devices as input and offers /dev/jsX device
> | files to the userspace.
> 
> Hi Jens -
> 
> Thanks for thinking to help :-)
> 
> About the joystick "module", the issue there would be getting the data
> out of the accelerometers in a nice way I guess.  The lis302dl driver
> just shoves the data down input event interfaces (while anyone has them
> open), and does it in an ISR.
> 
> But, it seems quite reasonable to map accelerometer to joystick, maybe
> the way to come at that is add a Kconfig for this feature and put it
> into the lis302dl driver.
> 
> Just a tip please patch against andy-tracking rather than stable.
> 
> - -Andy
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