Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] iio: adc: add new ad7380 driver

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:28:39 -0600
David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com> wrote:

> This series is adding a new driver for the Analog Devices Inc. AD7380,
> AD7381, AD7383, and AD7384 ADCs. These chips are part of a family of
> simultaneous sampling SAR ADCs.
> 
> One quirk of these chips is that since they are simultaneous sampling,
> they have multiple SPI data output lines that allow transferring two
> data words (one for each input channel) at the same time. So a new
> generic devicetree binding is added to describe this sort of SPI bus
> configuration.
> 
> To keep things simple, the initial driver implementation only supports
> the 2-channel differential chips listed above. There are also 4-channel
> differential chips and 4-channel single-ended chips in the family that
> can be added later.
> 
> Furthermore, the driver is just implementing basic support for capturing
> data. Additional features like interrupts, CRC, etc. can be added later.
> 
> Also, FYI, this driver will also be used as the base for an upcoming
> series adding AXI SPI Engine offload support for these chips along with
> [1].
> 
> This work is being done by BayLibre and on behalf of Analog Devices Inc.
> hence the maintainers are @analog.com.
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/20231204-axi-spi-engine-series-2-v1-0-063672323fce@baylibre.com/
Series applied to the togreg branch of iio.git though that is only pushed
out as testing for now as I'll be rebasing it on rc1 once available.

Jonathan