Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] iio: adc: max1027: Make it optional to use interrupts

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> wrote on Sun, 6 Oct 2019 11:18:37
+0100:

> On Thu,  3 Oct 2019 19:33:56 +0200
> Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > The chip has a 'start conversion' and a 'end of conversion' pair of
> > pins. They can be used but this is absolutely not mandatory as regular
> > polling of the value is totally fine with the current internal
> > clocking setup. Turn the interrupts optional and do not error out if
> > they are not inquired in the device tree. This has the effect to
> > prevent triggered buffers use though.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>  
> 
> Hmm. I haven't looked a this in a great deal of depth but if we support
> single channel reads it should be possible to allow the use of a
> trigger from elsewhere.  Looks like a fair bit of new code would be needed
> to support that though.  So perhaps this is a good first step.
> 
> It's a bit annoying that the hardware doesn't provide a EOC bit
> anywhere in the registers.  That would have allowed us to be a bit
> cleverer.

I totally agree. Actually, this chip does not support any 'register
read', the only things we can read are measures (temperature/voltages).


Thanks,
Miquèl