Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: iio: adc: stm32: add support for diff channels

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:15:43 +0200
Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com> wrote:

> STM32H7 ADC channels may be configured either as single-ended or
> differential.
> Add 'st,adc-diff-channels' property to support differential channels.
> Differential channels are defined as a pair of positive and negative
> inputs: vinp & vinn.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Hmm. Fair enough.  Sometimes we support both types of channels
and leave it to userspace, but in many cases that makes little sense
- particularly if like I think is going on here, we aren't combining channels
that can be separately read but rather the negative pin is simply unused
when we are in single channel mode... (did I understand that right?)

Jonathan

> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/st,stm32-adc.txt | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/st,stm32-adc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/st,stm32-adc.txt
> index 48bfcaa3..c3c8de1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/st,stm32-adc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/st,stm32-adc.txt
> @@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ Required properties:
>  - st,adc-channels: List of single-ended channels muxed for this ADC.
>    It can have up to 16 channels on stm32f4 or 20 channels on stm32h7, numbered
>    from 0 to 15 or 19 (resp. for in0..in15 or in0..in19).
> +- st,adc-diff-channels: List of differential channels muxed for this ADC.
> +  Depending on part used, some channels can be configured as differential
> +  instead of single-ended (e.g. stm32h7). List here positive and negative
> +  inputs pairs as <vinp vinn>, <vinp vinn>,... vinp and vinn are numbered
> +  from 0 to 19 on stm32h7)
> +  Note: At least one of "st,adc-channels" or "st,adc-diff-channels" is required.
>  - #io-channel-cells = <1>: See the IIO bindings section "IIO consumers" in
>    Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt
>