Re: [PATCH 1/2] iio: vadc: Qualcomm SPMI PMIC voltage ADC driver

[Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@mm-sol.com>]

Hi Arnd,

Thank you for the comments!

On 09/05/2014 03:26 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2014 15:14:33 Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX1_BAT_THERM, 0)                 /* 0x30 */
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX2_BAT_ID, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX3_XO_THERM, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX4_AMUX_THM1, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX5_AMUX_THM2,by you  0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX6_AMUX_THM3, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX7_HW_ID, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX8_AMUX_THM4, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX9_AMUX_THM5, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(AMUX_PU1, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(AMUX_PU2, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX3_BUF_XO_THERM_BUF, 0)          /* 0x3c */
>> +
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX1_PU1_BAT_THERM, 0)             /* 0x70 */
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX2_PU1_BAT_ID, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX3_PU1_XO_THERM, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX4_PU1_AMUX_THM1, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX5_PU1_AMUX_THM2, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX6_PU1_AMUX_THM3, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX7_PU1_AMUX_HW_ID, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX8_PU1_AMUX_THM4, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX9_PU1_AMUX_THM5, 0)
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX10_PU1_AMUX_USB_ID, 0)          /* 0x79 */
>> +       VADC_CHAN(LR_MUX3_BUF_PU1_XO_THERM_BUF, 0)      /* 0x7c */
>>
> 
> These numbers all look hardware specific, so why put macros into the
> device tree rather than using them directly?

The idea was to use #defines in DT nodes when we need to overwrite the
adc channel parameters, see example in 2/2 how it will be used.

> 
> If you want to make up your own macro namespace, I would suggest
> using consecutive numbers and turning the above into
> 
> 	...
> 	[LR_MUX3_BUF_XO_THERM_BUF] = VADC_CHAN(0x3c, 0),
> 	[LR_MUX1_PU1_BAT_THERM]    = VADC_CHAN(0x70, 0),
> 	[LR_MUX1_PU1_BAT_ID]       = VADC_CHAN(0x71, 0),
> 	...
> 
> but I don't see that really improving the DT, since you then
> need to look up the values in the header rather than the data sheet.

I will see how can I make this elegantly by using IIO infrastructure better.

regards,
Stan