[PATCH 2/3] iio: adc: mt6397-auxadc: add mt6397 PMIC AUXADC driver

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at intel.com
Wed Sep 16 02:55:49 PDT 2026


On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 11:15:27PM -0500, Ryan Brue wrote:
> The mt6397 AUXADC is a 10-bit ADC behind the SoC's PMIC wrapper. On boards
> built around this PMIC it is the only way to read the battery: the SoC's
> AUXADC is wired to board thermistors and the charger ICs these boards use
> have no ADC of their own.
> 
> Add a driver exposing the battery voltage and battery temperature
> channels. Only those two are described, so a channel ID in the device tree
> is an index into the driver's channel array rather than the PMIC's channel
> number, as mt6323-auxadc does. The ready bit lives in a channel's raw
> result register, but the value comes from the chip's trimmed copy of it,
> which is what the vendor driver reads for a measurement.
> 
> Both channels need more than that, as the vendor programs them. The
> battery voltage is measured through ISENSE, because a board with a
> switching charger in the power path leaves BATSNS on the charger's system
> rail instead of on the pack. The thermistor only reads correctly with the
> PMIC's battery-detect bias and input buffer enabled, which take 20 ms to
> settle. Both are switched back off afterwards.
> 
> Reads average sixteen conversions in software; the chip's sample
> accumulator makes no measurable difference at any setting, so it is left
> at one sample per conversion.

...

> +/*
> + * MediaTek MT6397 PMIC AUXADC IIO driver
> + *
> + * Copyright (c) 2026 Ryan Brue <ryanbrue.dev at gmail.com>
> + *
> + * Based on drivers/iio/adc/mt6323-auxadc.c

Why not add this device support into that driver?

> + */

...

> +#define MT6397_AUXADC_ISENSE_SETTLE_US	USEC_PER_MSEC

(1 * USEC_PER_MSEC)

...

> +static const struct iio_chan_spec mt6397_auxadc_channels[] = {
> +	MTK_PMIC_IIO_CHAN(isense,   MT6397_AUXADC_ISENSE,

One space too many.

> +			  MT6397_AUXADC_HWCHAN_BATSNS),
> +	MTK_PMIC_IIO_CHAN(bat_temp, MT6397_AUXADC_BAT_TEMP,
> +			  MT6397_AUXADC_HWCHAN_BAT_TEMP),
> +};

...

> +static int mt6397_auxadc_battemp_bias(struct mt6397_auxadc *adc, bool on)
> +{
> +	struct regmap *map = adc->regmap;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (on) {
> +		ret = regmap_set_bits(map, MT6397_AUXADC_CON0,
> +				      MT6397_AUXADC_CON0_BUF_PWD_ON);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
> +		ret = regmap_set_bits(map, MT6397_AUXADC_CON0,
> +				      MT6397_AUXADC_CON0_BUF_PWD_B);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
> +		return regmap_set_bits(map, MT6397_CHR_CON7,
> +				       MT6397_CHR_CON7_BATON_TDET_EN);
> +	}
> +
> +	ret = regmap_clear_bits(map, MT6397_CHR_CON7,
> +				MT6397_CHR_CON7_BATON_TDET_EN);
> +	ret = ret ?: regmap_clear_bits(map, MT6397_AUXADC_CON0,
> +				       MT6397_AUXADC_CON0_BUF_PWD_B);
> +	return ret ?: regmap_clear_bits(map, MT6397_AUXADC_CON0,
> +					MT6397_AUXADC_CON0_BUF_PWD_ON);

Huh?! Please, use standard pattern with 'if (ret) return ret;'.
Ditto for other weird cases like this.

> +}

...

> +{
> +	unsigned int i, sum = 0;
> +	int ret, sample;

It's preferred not to mix ret with other semantically different variables.

> +	/* Held across the whole burst: the channel select is shared state. */
> +	guard(mutex)(&adc->lock);
> +
> +	if (chan->channel == MT6397_AUXADC_ISENSE) {
> +		ret = mt6397_auxadc_isense_enable(adc);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
> +		fsleep(MT6397_AUXADC_ISENSE_SETTLE_US);
> +	} else {
> +		ret = mt6397_auxadc_battemp_bias(adc, true);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
> +		fsleep(MT6397_AUXADC_BATTEMP_SETTLE_US);
> +	}

> +	for (i = 0; i < MT6397_AUXADC_SAMPLES; i++) {

	for (unsigned int i = 0; i < MT6397_AUXADC_SAMPLES; i++) {


> +		ret = mt6397_auxadc_read_once(adc, chan, &sample);
> +		if (ret)
> +			break;
> +
> +		sum += sample;
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Lower START so the converter is not left armed between reads. */
> +	regmap_clear_bits(adc->regmap, MT6397_AUXADC_CON1,
> +			  MT6397_AUXADC_CON1_START);
> +
> +	if (chan->channel == MT6397_AUXADC_ISENSE)
> +		mt6397_auxadc_isense_disable(adc);
> +	else
> +		mt6397_auxadc_battemp_bias(adc, false);
> +
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	*val = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(sum, MT6397_AUXADC_SAMPLES);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

...

Otherwise nice and small driver.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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