Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] iio: adc: adding support for pac193x

["Nuno Sá" <noname.nuno@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2023-10-26 at 15:03 +0000, Marius.Cristea@microchip.com wrote:
> Hi Nuno Sá,
> 
>   Thanks for looking over the patch.
> 
> On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 16:38 +0200, Nuno Sá wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 16:44 +0300,
> > marius.cristea@microchip.com wrote:
> > > From: Marius Cristea <marius.cristea@microchip.com>
> > > 
> > > This is the iio driver for Microchip
> > > PAC193X series of Power Monitor with Accumulator chip family.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marius Cristea <marius.cristea@microchip.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Hi Marius,
> > 
> > I'll be honest and I just looked at this for 5min. But I'm seeing
> > things like
> > shunt resistors, vsense, power, energy... This seems to me that it
> > belong to
> > drivers/hwmon. Any special reason for IIO?
> > 
> 
>   Yes, this device is at the boundary between IIO and HWMON if you are
> looking just at the "shunt resistors, vsense, power, energy". The
> device also has ADC internaly that can measure voltages (up to 4
> channels) and also currents (up to 4 channels). Current is measured as
> voltage across the shunt_resistor.
> 

I think this alone is not justification but...

>   As I said before: I was thinking to start with a simple driver (this
> one that is more apropiate to be a HWMON) and add more functionality
> later (like data buffering that is quite important for example if
> someone wants to profile power consumtion of the procesor itself, or a
> pheriperic, or a battery, this kind of functionality was requested by
> our customers).
> 

having buffering support already makes a case for IIO, yes.

Hmm, I'm also just realizing this is v2 and indeed you already justified the very
same question in v1. Sorry for noise!

- Nuno Sá
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