Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] dt-bindings: iio: Add adis16550 bindings

["Nuno Sá" <noname.nuno@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 15:48 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:42:52 +0200
> Robert Budai <robert.budai@analog.com> wrote:
> 
> > Document the ADIS16550 device devicetree bindings.
> > 
> > Co-developed-by: Antoniu Miclaus <antoniu.miclaus@analog.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Antoniu Miclaus <antoniu.miclaus@analog.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ramona Gradinariu <ramona.gradinariu@analog.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Budai <robert.budai@analog.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > 4:
> > - applied styling changes to the bindings file
> > - restricted sync-mode to intervals 1-2 
> > 
> >  .../bindings/iio/imu/adi,adis16550.yaml       | 96 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  MAINTAINERS                                   |  9 ++
> >  2 files changed, 105 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/imu/adi,adis16550.yaml
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/imu/adi,adis16550.yaml
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/imu/adi,adis16550.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..e7ccf3883e55
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/imu/adi,adis16550.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/iio/imu/adi,adis16550.yaml#
> > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > +
> > +title: Analog Devices ADIS16550 and similar IMUs
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@analog.com>
> > +  - Ramona Gradinariu <ramona.gradinariu@analog.com>
> > +  - Antoniu Miclaus <antoniu.miclaus@analog.com>
> > +
> > +properties:
> > +  compatible:
> > +    enum:
> > +      - adi,adis16550
> > +      - adi,adis16550w
> > +
> > +  reg:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +
> > +  spi-cpha: true
> > +
> > +  spi-cpol: true
> > +
> > +  spi-max-frequency:
> > +    maximum: 15000000
> > +
> > +  vdd-supply: true
> > +
> > +  interrupts:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +
> > +  reset-gpios:
> > +    description:
> > +      RESET active low pin.
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +
> > +  clocks:
> > +    maxItems: 1
> > +    description: If not provided, then the internal clock is used.
> > +
> > +  adi,sync-mode:
> > +    description:
> > +      Configures the device SYNC pin. The following modes are supported
> > +      0 - output_sync
> > +      1 - direct_sync
> > +      2 - scaled_sync
> 
> A little more on these would be good.  They are 'weird' options
> that are not commonly seen so help the reader out.
> 
> For scaled_sync don't we need information on the scale for it to be useful?
> If we had that then a value of 1 would mean direct sync and wouldn't need
> another control. 
> 
> I'm not fully understanding the usecases for this.
> 
> If we have a say a pulse per second input, the control of the scale should
> be userspace anyway.  So maybe this maps to the input clock that we can elect
> to
> use and control the effective frequency of by using scaled sync?

I guess you likely already saw it in the driver. The scale value is
automatically set by the driver depending on the desired ODR (sampling
frequency).

> 
> I'm not sure what pulse sync is. Grepping the datasheet didn't give me
> anything that seemed related.   The sync pin is input only so I'm also
> not sure on output sync.

I think this is a copy paste from the adis16475 bindings. For this device, it
seems we only have:
 * internal clock;
 * external:
   * direct mode
   * scaled mode

But yeah, as you pointed out I think we do not need the binding. The presence of
an optional input clock plus the frequency should be all we need in order to set
the desired configuration. It should also be possible to add the allowed ranges
to the external input clock in the bindings...


- Nuno Sá