Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: iio: adc: ad7768-1: add new supported parts

[Jonathan Santos <jonath4nns@gmail.com>]

On 08/16, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:03:23 +0200
> Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 14/08/2025 00:39, Jonathan Santos wrote:
> > >>>  
> > >>> +  adi,aaf-gain:
> > >>> +    description: |
> > >>> +      Specifies the gain of the Analog Anti-Aliasing Filter (AAF) applied to the
> > >>> +      ADC input, measured in milli-units. The AAF provides additional signal  
> > >>
> > >> What is milli unit? Isn't gain in dB, so maybe you want mB? Quite
> > >> unpopular to see mB, but we cannot use 1/100 of dB, so I could
> > >> understand it.
> > >>  
> > > 
> > > Actually, the gain is expressed in V/V, not in dB. I may have phrased it poorly, but since
> > > there are fractional values like 0.364 and 0.143, I chose to represent it
> > > in milli-units.  
> > 
> > Why your reply to is corrupted:
> > "c3cf9b97-3883-4ebb-a2ed-0033adebda87@kernel.org"?
> > 
> > 
> > What sort of unit is milli-unit? Isn't this 1/1000 of some BASE unit,
> > but you do not have here a base?
> >
> > I think you want just basis point if this is V/V (already in common
> > property suffixes)
> Nice. I didn't know about -bp.   That does sound like a good choice for ratio
> stuff and here would be 100x larger actual values which is fine.
> 

Yes, it would be, but the here it is 1000x larger than the
actual value (1/1000 V/V). I don't see another unit in
property-units.yaml for this specifc case. Maybe using -milli suffix
like in 'adi,ad4000.yaml' and 'adi,ad7380.yaml'?

> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Krzysztof
> >