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From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] staging: iio: adc: new driver for ADT7408
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:20:59AM -0400, Zhang, Sonic wrote:
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> With the raw register value, the driver gives application develop full flexibility to control the device. Is it possible to define a unifiied ABI for all different ADCs in IIO framework? May IIO should document a policy on ABI difinition.
> 
The whole point of an ABI (or API) is that it is well defined and unified,
and can be used across multiple devices. Otherwise it is not an ABI.

Guenter