Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] iio: adc: Add TI ADS1100 and ADS1000

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 16:23:14 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 08:49:22AM +0100, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> > On 01-03-2023 16:30, Andy Shevchenko wrote:  
> > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 07:31:51AM +0100, Mike Looijmans wrote:  
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > +	/* Shift result to compensate for bit resolution vs. sample rate */
> > > > +	value <<= 16 - ads1100_data_bits(data);
> > > > +	*val = sign_extend32(value, 15);  
> > > Why not simply
> > > 
> > > 	*val = sign_extend32(value, ads1100_data_bits(data) - 1);
> > > 
> > > ?  
> > 
> > As discussed with  Jonathan Cameron, the register is right-justified and the
> > number of bits depend on the data rate. Rather than having the "scale"
> > change when the sample rate changes, we chose to adjust the sample result so
> > it's always left-justified.  
> 
> Hmm... OK, but it adds unneeded code I think.

There isn't a way to do it in one go that I can think of.
The first statement is multiplying the value by a power of 2, not just sign extending it.
You could sign extend first then shift to do the multiply, but ends up same amount
of code.

It does look a bit like a weird open coded sign extension though so I can see where
the confusion came from!

> 
> ...
> 
> > > > +	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> > > > +		if (BIT(i) == gain) {  
> > > ffs()/__ffs() (look at the documentation for the difference and use proper one).  
> > 
> > Thought of it, but I'd rather have it return EINVAL for attempting to set
> > the analog gain to "7" (0nly 1,2,4,8 allowed).  
> 
> I'm not sure what you are implying.
> 
> You have open coded something that has already to be a function which on some
> architectures become a single assembly instruction.
> 
> That said, drop your for-loop if-cond and use one of the proposed directly.
> Then you may compare the result to what ever you want to be a limit and return
> whatever error code you want to

Agreed, could do it with appropriate ffs() followed by if (BIT(i) != gain) return -EINVAL;