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* RFC: Does separate types for differential signals make sense?
@ 2011-08-18 10:18 Jonathan Cameron
  2011-08-18 12:09 ` Michael Hennerich
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Cameron @ 2011-08-18 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, Hennerich, Michael

Hi All,

Whilst working on some of the capacitance adc drivers yesterday I added a second
differential type.   Whilst we only had IIO_VOlTAGE_DIFF, it seemed easier to
handle it as a special case - now we have IIO_CAPACITANCE_DIFF, I'm not so sure.

The alternative is to add another flag to struct iio_chan_spec and build the
differential names automatically (easy enough I think).  Nastier is how to handle
the related event codes.  As we haven't pushed out the new 64 bit codes, this
is a perfect time to slip in a change there (rather than two changes back to back.)

Current macro to generate codes is:

define IIO_EVENT_CODE(chan_type, modifier, direction,			\
		       type, chan, chan1, chan2)			\
	(((u64)type << 56) | ((u64)direction << 48) | ((u64)modifier << 40) | \
	 ((u64)chan_type << 32) | (chan2 << 16) | chan1 | chan)

So if we were to steal a bit to mark channels as differential, where would we do it?
Obvious choice is in type - reducing max number of types to 128 - can't see that being
a problem any time soon.  Could pinch the top bit off direction instead - that one
has way more values than I can think of uses for...

This is going to be an annoyingly invasive patch to do. I'll probably scrap the
use of the IIO_CHAN macro for all differential channels rather than adding another
parameter to it. Plan was to scrap that macro entirely eventually, so not such a
bad thing.

Jonathan


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2011-08-18 10:18 RFC: Does separate types for differential signals make sense? Jonathan Cameron
2011-08-18 12:09 ` Michael Hennerich
2011-08-18 12:29   ` [PATCH] IIO: Scrap the _DIFF types in favour of a flag in chan spec Jonathan Cameron
2011-08-18 12:29   ` [PATCH] staging:iio: Differential channel handling - use explicit flag rather than types Jonathan Cameron

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