Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] iio: adc: ad7192: Add AD7194 support

[David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 11:13 AM David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 7:22 AM Alisa-Dariana Roman
> <alisadariana@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello and thank you for the feedback!
> >
> > On 09.02.2024 00:27, David Lechner wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 11:25 AM Alisa-Dariana Roman
> > > <alisadariana@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Unlike the other AD719Xs, AD7194 has configurable differential
> > >> channels. The default configuration for these channels can be changed
> > >> from the devicetree.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >>
> > >> +static const struct iio_info ad7194_info = {
> > >> +       .read_raw = ad7192_read_raw,
> > >> +       .write_raw = ad7192_write_raw,
> > >> +       .write_raw_get_fmt = ad7192_write_raw_get_fmt,
> > >> +       .read_avail = ad7192_read_avail,
> > >> +       .validate_trigger = ad_sd_validate_trigger,
> > >> +       .update_scan_mode = ad7192_update_scan_mode,
> > >> +};
> > >
> > > Isn't this identical to ad7192_info and ad7195_info now that .attrs is
> > > removed? It seems like we could consolidate here.
> >
> > Those are not exactly identical since: 92 has bridge switch attribute,
> > 95 has bridge switch and ac excitation attributes and 94 has no custom
> > attributes. I used a different info structure for 94 in order to avoid
> > showing extra attributes.
> >
>
> Ah, I see what you mean. I didn't look close enough at the other patch
> removing one attribute to see that were still other attributes.
>
> > >
> > >> +
> > >>   static const struct iio_info ad7195_info = {
> > >>          .read_raw = ad7192_read_raw,
> > >>          .write_raw = ad7192_write_raw,
> > >> @@ -1009,6 +1049,80 @@ static const struct iio_chan_spec ad7193_channels[] = {
> > >>          IIO_CHAN_SOFT_TIMESTAMP(14),
> > >>   };
> > >>
> > >> +static struct iio_chan_spec ad7194_channels[] = {
> > >> +       AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(0, 1, 2, 0x001),
> > >> +       AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(1, 3, 4, 0x023),
> > >> +       AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(2, 5, 6, 0x045),
> > >> +       AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(3, 7, 8, 0x067),
> > >> +       AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(4, 9, 10, 0x089),
> > >> +       AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(5, 11, 12, 0x0AB),
> > >> +       AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(6, 13, 14, 0x0CD),
> > >> +       AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(7, 15, 16, 0x0EF),
> > >> +       AD719x_TEMP_CHANNEL(8, AD7194_CH_TEMP),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(9, 1, AD7194_CH_AIN1),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(10, 2, AD7194_CH_AIN2),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(11, 3, AD7194_CH_AIN3),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(12, 4, AD7194_CH_AIN4),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(13, 5, AD7194_CH_AIN5),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(14, 6, AD7194_CH_AIN6),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(15, 7, AD7194_CH_AIN7),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(16, 8, AD7194_CH_AIN8),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(17, 9, AD7194_CH_AIN9),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(18, 10, AD7194_CH_AIN10),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(19, 11, AD7194_CH_AIN11),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(20, 12, AD7194_CH_AIN12),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(21, 13, AD7194_CH_AIN13),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(22, 14, AD7194_CH_AIN14),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(23, 15, AD7194_CH_AIN15),
> > >> +       AD7193_CHANNEL(24, 16, AD7194_CH_AIN16),
> > >
> > > Shouldn't these be differential channels since they are
> > > pseudo-differential inputs measuring the difference between AINx and
> > > AINCOM?
> > >
> > >> +       IIO_CHAN_SOFT_TIMESTAMP(25),
> > >> +};
> > >
> > > i.e. like this (where AINCOM is voltage0 AINx is voltagex)
> > >
> > > static struct iio_chan_spec ad7194_channels[] = {
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(0, 1, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN1),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(1, 2, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN2),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(2, 3, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN3),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(3, 4, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN4),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(4, 5, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN5),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(5, 6, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN6),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(6, 7, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN7),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(7, 8, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN8),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(8, 9, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN9),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(9, 10, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN10),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(10, 11, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN11),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(11, 12, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN12),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(12, 13, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN13),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(13, 14, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN14),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(14, 15, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN15),
> > >         AD7193_DIFF_CHANNEL(15, 16, 0, AD7194_CH_AIN16),
> > >         AD719x_TEMP_CHANNEL(16, AD7194_CH_TEMP),
> > >         IIO_CHAN_SOFT_TIMESTAMP(17),
> > > };
> > >
> >
> > I tried to follow the existing style of the driver: for each
> > pseudo-differential channel(AINx - AINCOM) there is an iio channel like
> > this in_voltagex_raw; and for each differential channel(AINx - AINy)
> > there is an iio channel like this in_voltagex-in_voltagey_raw. AD7194
> > has 16 pseudo-differential channels/8 fully differential channels so I
> > thought the (AINx - AINCOM) channels should be static and only the 8
> > differential ones could be configured by the user from the devicetree by
> > choosing the input pins.
> >
> > The existing style of the driver, AD7192 has 4 pseudo differential
> > channels and 2 (non configurable) differential channels:
> > static const struct iio_chan_spec ad7192_channels[] = {
> >         AD719x_DIFF_CHANNEL(0, 1, 2, AD7192_CH_AIN1P_AIN2M),
> >         AD719x_DIFF_CHANNEL(1, 3, 4, AD7192_CH_AIN3P_AIN4M),
> >         AD719x_TEMP_CHANNEL(2, AD7192_CH_TEMP),
> >         AD719x_DIFF_CHANNEL(3, 2, 2, AD7192_CH_AIN2P_AIN2M),
> >         AD719x_CHANNEL(4, 1, AD7192_CH_AIN1),
> >         AD719x_CHANNEL(5, 2, AD7192_CH_AIN2),
> >         AD719x_CHANNEL(6, 3, AD7192_CH_AIN3),
> >         AD719x_CHANNEL(7, 4, AD7192_CH_AIN4),
> >         IIO_CHAN_SOFT_TIMESTAMP(8),
> > };
> >
> > Would it be better to respect the existing style or to do like you
> > suggested and have a total of 16 differential channels that are
> > configurable from the device tree?


Now that we have it sorted that AINCOM should be a supply, it does
sound like we should more closely follow the pattern from AD7192. But
to cover every possible programmable combination of AINx to AINy, we
would need 256 differential channels (16 * 16) in addition to the
other channels. Realistically, we probably don't need that many
though. Since I see that AD7192 has a differential channel where uses
AIN2 for both + and - I guess having 16 differential channels that are
configured via device tree would be enough to allow all 16 AINx inputs
to be used this way. Is there a use case where the same AINx would be
assigned to multiple channels at the same time?

>
> Looking at Table 20 in the AD7192 datasheet, I can see why AD7192 was
> done this way since only certain combinations of inputs can be used
> together. (Although I think indexes 4 to 7 should really be
> differential because they are the difference between the input and
> AINCOM which may not be GND, but it is probably too late to fix that.)
>
> Tables 22, 23 and 24 in the AD7194 datasheet show that this chip is
> much more configurable than AD7192 when it comes to assigning
> channels. There are basically no restrictions on which inputs can be
> used together. So I am still confident that my suggestion is the way
> to go for AD7194. (Although I didn't actually try it on hardware, so
> can't be 100% confident. But at least 90% confident :-p)