[PATCH v5 7/9] dt-bindings: iio: adc: document diff-channels corner case for some ADCs

Alexandru Ardelean
2024-09-07T06:51:02Z

Some ADCs have channels with negative and positive inputs, which can be
used to measure differential voltage levels. These inputs/pins are
dedicated (to the given channel) and cannot be muxed as with other ADCs.

For those types of setups, the 'diff-channels' property can be specified to
be used with the channel number (or reg property) for both negative and
positive inputs/pins.

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <aardelean@baylibre.com>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adc.yaml | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adc.yaml
index 8e7835cf36fd..b9bc02b5b07a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adc.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adc.yaml
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ properties:
to both the positive and negative inputs of a differential ADC.
The first value specifies the positive input pin, the second
specifies the negative input pin.
+ There are also some ADCs, where the differential channel has dedicated
+ positive and negative inputs which can be used to measure differential
+ voltage levels. For those setups, this property can be configured with
+ the 'reg' property for both inputs (i.e. diff-channels = <reg reg>).

single-channel:
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
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