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Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:48:42 -0800 (PST) Sender: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: IIO Driver for TMP117 Temperature sensor To: Alexandru Ardelean , Puranjay Mohan Cc: linux-iio , linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org References: From: Guenter Roeck Autocrypt: addr=linux@roeck-us.net; keydata= xsFNBE6H1WcBEACu6jIcw5kZ5dGeJ7E7B2uweQR/4FGxH10/H1O1+ApmcQ9i87XdZQiB9cpN RYHA7RCEK2dh6dDccykQk3bC90xXMPg+O3R+C/SkwcnUak1UZaeK/SwQbq/t0tkMzYDRxfJ7 nyFiKxUehbNF3r9qlJgPqONwX5vJy4/GvDHdddSCxV41P/ejsZ8PykxyJs98UWhF54tGRWFl 7i1xvaDB9lN5WTLRKSO7wICuLiSz5WZHXMkyF4d+/O5ll7yz/o/JxK5vO/sduYDIlFTvBZDh gzaEtNf5tQjsjG4io8E0Yq0ViobLkS2RTNZT8ICq/Jmvl0SpbHRvYwa2DhNsK0YjHFQBB0FX IdhdUEzNefcNcYvqigJpdICoP2e4yJSyflHFO4dr0OrdnGLe1Zi/8Xo/2+M1dSSEt196rXaC kwu2KgIgmkRBb3cp2vIBBIIowU8W3qC1+w+RdMUrZxKGWJ3juwcgveJlzMpMZNyM1jobSXZ0 VHGMNJ3MwXlrEFPXaYJgibcg6brM6wGfX/LBvc/haWw4yO24lT5eitm4UBdIy9pKkKmHHh7s jfZJkB5fWKVdoCv/omy6UyH6ykLOPFugl+hVL2Prf8xrXuZe1CMS7ID9Lc8FaL1ROIN/W8Vk BIsJMaWOhks//7d92Uf3EArDlDShwR2+D+AMon8NULuLBHiEUQARAQABzTJHdWVudGVyIFJv ZWNrIChMaW51eCBhY2NvdW50KSA8bGludXhAcm9lY2stdXMubmV0PsLBgQQTAQIAKwIbAwYL CQgHAwIGFQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4ACGQEFAlVcphcFCRmg06EACgkQyx8mb86fmYFg0RAA nzXJzuPkLJaOmSIzPAqqnutACchT/meCOgMEpS5oLf6xn5ySZkl23OxuhpMZTVX+49c9pvBx hpvl5bCWFu5qC1jC2eWRYU+aZZE4sxMaAGeWenQJsiG9lP8wkfCJP3ockNu0ZXXAXwIbY1O1 c+l11zQkZw89zNgWgKobKzrDMBFOYtAh0pAInZ9TSn7oA4Ctejouo5wUugmk8MrDtUVXmEA9 7f9fgKYSwl/H7dfKKsS1bDOpyJlqhEAH94BHJdK/b1tzwJCFAXFhMlmlbYEk8kWjcxQgDWMu GAthQzSuAyhqyZwFcOlMCNbAcTSQawSo3B9yM9mHJne5RrAbVz4TWLnEaX8gA5xK3uCNCeyI sqYuzA4OzcMwnnTASvzsGZoYHTFP3DQwf2nzxD6yBGCfwNGIYfS0i8YN8XcBgEcDFMWpOQhT Pu3HeztMnF3HXrc0t7e5rDW9zCh3k2PA6D2NV4fews9KDFhLlTfCVzf0PS1dRVVWM+4jVl6l HRIAgWp+2/f8dx5vPc4Ycp4IsZN0l1h9uT7qm1KTwz+sSl1zOqKD/BpfGNZfLRRxrXthvvY8 BltcuZ4+PGFTcRkMytUbMDFMF9Cjd2W9dXD35PEtvj8wnEyzIos8bbgtLrGTv/SYhmPpahJA l8hPhYvmAvpOmusUUyB30StsHIU2LLccUPPOwU0ETofVZwEQALlLbQeBDTDbwQYrj0gbx3bq 7kpKABxN2MqeuqGr02DpS9883d/t7ontxasXoEz2GTioevvRmllJlPQERVxM8gQoNg22twF7 pB/zsrIjxkE9heE4wYfN1AyzT+AxgYN6f8hVQ7Nrc9XgZZe+8IkuW/Nf64KzNJXnSH4u6nJM J2+Dt274YoFcXR1nG76Q259mKwzbCukKbd6piL+VsT/qBrLhZe9Ivbjq5WMdkQKnP7gYKCAi pNVJC4enWfivZsYupMd9qn7Uv/oCZDYoBTdMSBUblaLMwlcjnPpOYK5rfHvC4opxl+P/Vzyz 6WC2TLkPtKvYvXmdsI6rnEI4Uucg0Au/Ulg7aqqKhzGPIbVaL+U0Wk82nz6hz+WP2ggTrY1w ZlPlRt8WM9w6WfLf2j+PuGklj37m+KvaOEfLsF1v464dSpy1tQVHhhp8LFTxh/6RWkRIR2uF I4v3Xu/k5D0LhaZHpQ4C+xKsQxpTGuYh2tnRaRL14YMW1dlI3HfeB2gj7Yc8XdHh9vkpPyuT nY/ZsFbnvBtiw7GchKKri2gDhRb2QNNDyBnQn5mRFw7CyuFclAksOdV/sdpQnYlYcRQWOUGY HhQ5eqTRZjm9z+qQe/T0HQpmiPTqQcIaG/edgKVTUjITfA7AJMKLQHgp04Vylb+G6jocnQQX JqvvP09whbqrABEBAAHCwWUEGAECAA8CGwwFAlVcpi8FCRmg08MACgkQyx8mb86fmYHNRQ/+ J0OZsBYP4leJvQF8lx9zif+v4ZY/6C9tTcUv/KNAE5leyrD4IKbnV4PnbrVhjq861it/zRQW cFpWQszZyWRwNPWUUz7ejmm9lAwPbr8xWT4qMSA43VKQ7ZCeTQJ4TC8kjqtcbw41SjkjrcTG wF52zFO4bOWyovVAPncvV9eGA/vtnd3xEZXQiSt91kBSqK28yjxAqK/c3G6i7IX2rg6pzgqh hiH3/1qM2M/LSuqAv0Rwrt/k+pZXE+B4Ud42hwmMr0TfhNxG+X7YKvjKC+SjPjqp0CaztQ0H nsDLSLElVROxCd9m8CAUuHplgmR3seYCOrT4jriMFBtKNPtj2EE4DNV4s7k0Zy+6iRQ8G8ng QjsSqYJx8iAR8JRB7Gm2rQOMv8lSRdjva++GT0VLXtHULdlzg8VjDnFZ3lfz5PWEOeIMk7Rj trjv82EZtrhLuLjHRCaG50OOm0hwPSk1J64R8O3HjSLdertmw7eyAYOo4RuWJguYMg5DRnBk WkRwrSuCn7UG+qVWZeKEsFKFOkynOs3pVbcbq1pxbhk3TRWCGRU5JolI4ohy/7JV1TVbjiDI HP/aVnm6NC8of26P40Pg8EdAhajZnHHjA7FrJXsy3cyIGqvg9os4rNkUWmrCfLLsZDHD8FnU mDW4+i+XlNFUPUYMrIKi9joBhu18ssf5i5Q= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:48:40 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On 12/9/20 12:11 AM, Alexandru Ardelean wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:10 PM Puranjay Mohan wrote: >> >> I have this TI's TMP117 sensor with me and I was thinking about writing an >> IIO driver for it as a hobby project. Is the IIO subsystem the correct >> place for this driver? if yes, can someone help me get started with this, >> I haven't written an IIO driver before. I have this sensor and also a >> raspberry pi with me for testing. > > This could also fit into drivers/hwmon. > Looking at the HWMON subsystem there are more TMP drivers there > (TMP102/103/108/401/513). > The first 3 seem a bit more similar to TMP117 (in terms of register map). > It would probably be better suited for hwmon (it has limit registers, suggesting a common use as hardware monitoring device). > Let's see what others have to add. > But, all-in-all whatever driver you end up writing, the easiest method > is to copy an existing similar driver and extend it. > Sometimes, a part can be added to an existing driver. > At a quick scan through existing drivers, it doesn't look like TMP117 > is similar to existing drivers, so it may require a new driver > altogether. I don't see an immediate match either, but the tmp102 hwmon driver might be a good start. Guenter > I may have missed something though. > > Thanks > Alex > >> >> -- >> Thanks and Regards >> >> Yours Truly, >> >> Puranjay Mohan