[PATCH v7 03/10] iio: adc: add helpers for parsing ADC nodes
Matti Vaittinen
mazziesaccount at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 01:22:11 PDT 2025
On 16/03/2025 11:38, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:18:18 +0200
> Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are ADC ICs which may have some of the AIN pins usable for other
>> functions. These ICs may have some of the AIN pins wired so that they
>> should not be used for ADC.
>>
>> (Preferred?) way for marking pins which can be used as ADC inputs is to
>> add corresponding channels at N nodes in the device tree as described in
>> the ADC binding yaml.
>>
>> Add couple of helper functions which can be used to retrieve the channel
>> information from the device node.
> I suspect we'll need the addition of an optional trailing timestamp
> channel at somepoint. But we can add that when we need it as only
> matters for drivers doing iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp()
This is true. That'll enable using this for devices with buffers - which
is not possible right now as most buffer users do timestamps. I'll leave
adding the parameter to first buffered user though, but I think it's
good to say out loud this is doable :) Thanks!
> Otherwise no additional comments from me.
Yours,
-- Matti
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