Re: [PATCH] iio: inkern: Add of_xlate function to struct iio_dev

Ivan T. Ivanov
2014-10-03T15:08:21Z

On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 07:31 -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 16:49 +0300, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 15:30 +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > > On 10/02/2014 02:32 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> > > > When #iio-cells is greater than '0', the driver could provide
> > > > a custom of_xlate function that reads the *args* and returns
> > > > the appropriate index in registered IIO channels array.
> > >
> > > Do you have an example of a device that doesn't want to use the default
> > > mapping? If yes please include it in the commit message, otherwise it is
> > > fairly hard to say whether this makes sense or not.
> >
> > Still not mainlined. You can find more detailed description of the
> > issue here[1] and driver here[2].
> I see your need. I wonder this mapping be done in individual client
> driver instead of creating another callback.

I am not sure I got you question. The idea is to provide default
1:1 mapping in core, which can be overwritten by client callback.

Regards,
Ivan