Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: add exynos5 adc driver under iio framwork

[Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>]

On 01/24/2013 05:12 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Lars,
> 
> Thank you for your comments / thoughts...
> 

Hi,

> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> wrote:
>> adc: adc@12D10000 {
>>
>>         #io-channel-cells = <1>;
>>         io-channel-output-names = "adc1", "adc2", ...;
>>
>>         ncp15wb473@0 {
>>                 compatible = "ntc,ncp15wb473";
>>                 ...
>>                 io-channels = <&adc 0>; // First ADC channel
> 
> I'm not an expert, but I think the typical way is:
> * No need to include a handle to &adc.  It's logically our parent.  In
> a similar way i2c devices don't specify their parent bus--they are
> just listed under it.
> * The "0" should be specified with reg = <0>

The relationship between the IIO sensor device and the consumer device is
not always a parent child relationship. In this case it makes sense to have
the ADC as the parent for the thermistors. But for other cases this may not
be true. E.g. take a touchscreen or power monitoring platform device which
uses the IIO device to do measurements.

> 
> To implement this I'd imagine that we'll need a new API call, right?
> In this case the thermistor driver won't know the name of the channel.
>  It can find the ADC (the struct device and probably other things) and
> knows a channel index.  Am I understanding properly?

This can be done by adding a new api call, but it would be best if both dt
and non-dt based consumers can use the same function. I outlined one
possible solution how this can be done in the previous mail to Naveen.

- Lars