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Wed, 27 May 2026 07:35:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Wadim Mueller To: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Guenter Roeck , lars@metafoo.de, dlechner@baylibre.com, nuno.sa@analog.com, andy@kernel.org, robh@kernel.org, krzk+dt@kernel.org, conor+dt@kernel.org, jdelvare@suse.com, ak@it-klinger.de, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/4] iio: types: add IIO_VOLUMEFLOW channel type Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 16:35:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20260527143515.102794-8-wafgo01@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260526165950.6ebbf673@jic23-huawei> References: <20260524205112.26638-1-wafgo01@gmail.com> <20260524205112.26638-2-wafgo01@gmail.com> <95f0914a-cb25-44ea-9cef-d203c624f74d@roeck-us.net> <20260526165950.6ebbf673@jic23-huawei> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Tue, 26 May 2026 16:59:50 +0100 Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > Two questions: Why restricting to liquid (there are also gas flow sensors), > > and why litres/second and not per minute which seems to be a more common > > unit ? > > I'd rather we went to the SI units where possible. Agreed - SI in v2. in_volumeflow_raw / _scale stays in l/s (rescaled SI m^3/s, matching the rest of IIO's "kept-small-for- userspace" convention). The ABI doc and a driver comment call that out. On the gas-flow question: rather than adding IIO_MASSFLOW now without a driver, I dropped the "liquid" wording from the channel type doc. The SLF3S driver is liquid-only, but the channel type itself just means "volumetric flow rate" and could describe a gas sensor reporting actual volume rate just as well. IIO_MASSFLOW for standard-volume / mass-equivalent gas flow can come later when a driver shows up. Thanks, Wadim