Shared support code used by Industrial I/O sensor drivers that sit behind HID sensor hubs, the standardised sensor-aggregation interface found in many modern laptops, 2-in-1s, and tablets. It centralises the plumbing for accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, ambient light sensors, and similar peripherals exposed over HID, so individual sensor drivers don't have to reimplement it.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is a shared helper library that other IIO sensor drivers link against to talk to HID-class sensor hubs (the kind of sensor aggregators commonly found in laptops and tablets). It provides common code rather than binding to any specific piece of hardware on its own.
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Not a driver directory: under drivers/iio/common and appears to contain shared HID sensor helper/library code for other IIO drivers, not a standalone kernel-bound hardware driver.